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National Jewish Book Award Winner: A family saga set in WWII-era South Africa offering both ''page-turning thrills [and] a painful meditation on destiny'' ( NPR, All Things Considered ). Called ''a latter-day Exodus '' by Kirkus Reviews , The Lion Seeker is an epic historical novel centered on the life of Isaac Helger. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, he runs around the streets of Johannesburg as a young hooligan and dreams of getting rich. But his parents are still haunted by the memories of the anti-Semitic pogroms they escaped, even as Isaac secretly pursues a relationship with a gentile girl. As the Nazi threat rises, Isaac is caught between his mother''s urgent ambition to bring her sisters to safety out of the old world, and his own desire to enjoy the freedoms of the new. But soon his mother''s carefully guarded secret takes them to the diamond mines, where mysteries are unveiled in the desert rocks and Isaac begins to learn the bittersweet reality of success bought at any cost.>
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Winner, Edward Lewis Wallant Award
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award
An Indie Next pick for November 2013
A Barnes & Noble Holiday 2013 Discover Great New Writers Selection
Amazon's New and Notable
"Bookseller Jury Pick" of the ABA Debut Dozen for Fall 2013
A Zoomer Book of the Week (Feb. 2013)
Featured in the Quill & Quire Spring 2013 Preview
"A captivating story, offering at times page-turning thrills and at others a painful meditation on destiny and volition. All too often debut novels stay too close to a writer's own life; it is a great gift to be able to mine family history and flex the imagination to create something that exudes such urgency and brilliance as this memorable book."-Ellah Allfrey, All Things Considered , NPR
"[A] bold, ambitious debut novel."-Tom Lavoie, Shelf Awareness
"This book is worth getting excited about. . . It's most impressive. The voice is like a close third person and you get inside the cadence of the characters in a special way."- Jenn Northington, Book Riot
"Suspenseful, entertaining, and thought provoking epic debut novel."- New York Journal of Books "Raw and ambitious." - Moment Magazine
