The Dubious Salvation of Jack V.

Informationen zum Autor Jacques Strauss was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. His first book, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V , won the Commonwealth Book Prize, Africa. He lives in London with his partner and works as a freelance writer. Klappentext It's 1989! and in the dying years of the Apartheid regime! eleven-year-old Jack Viljee considers life to be simple. The son of an Afrikaans father and an English mother! wedged between a strident older and a favoured younger sister! Jack allies himself with the family's beloved maid! Susie. Zusammenfassung It's 1989, and in the dying years of the Apartheid regime, eleven-year-old Jack Viljee considers life to be simple. The son of an Afrikaans father and an English mother, wedged between a strident older and a favoured younger sister, Jack allies himself with the family's beloved maid, Susie.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Strauss, Strauss Jacques
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.05.2012
• EAN: 9780099555070
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955507-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Republic of South Africa, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / World Literature / Africa / Southern Africa