Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost - Dugmore BoetieCondition: New A fast paced romp through apartheid era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds. The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con man. Duggie's response to being confined to the lowest level of South Africa's oppressive and humiliating racial hierarchy is to one up its absurdity with his own glib logic and

darker concern here is not so much the fragility of love

tensions are mounting between the South African Republic and the gold-hungry British Empire

Kheleke is a weaver of songs

As their stories interweave through the years

Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war

a philosopher with fundamental beliefs

fellow activists

Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here

Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human

Once you have finished reading it

dividing two very different colonial dispensations of racial ordering and classification

As his investigation deepens