South Africa Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/south-africa/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 24 Apr 2021 18:13:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg South Africa Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/south-africa/ 32 32 38398750 If You Want to Make God Laugh: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:33:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12994 Delilah hasn’t been home in forty years, but when she arrives on her family’s farm in South Africa it’s to find her sister Ruth drunk on the couch and getting ready to sell the place. The sisters are polar opposites. Literally. Delilah left the family at 17 to become a nun and when that didn’t […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/feed/ 8 12994 Circling the Sun: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/08/circling-the-sun-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/08/circling-the-sun-a-novel/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2015 07:24:55 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4299 I have a chart that traces my route over the Atlantic, Abingdon to New York, every inch of icy water I’ll pass over, but not the emptiness involved or the loneliness, or the fear. Those things are as real as anything else, though, and I’ll have to fly through them. Straight through the sickening dips […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/08/circling-the-sun-a-novel/feed/ 6 4299 The Lion Seeker https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/12/lion-seeker/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/12/lion-seeker/#comments Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:57:32 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2344   The son of Lithuanian Jews who left the country in the 1920s and moved to South Africa, Isaac Helger grows up believing the only way to have self-worth is through money. “Working” for a living, as his watch repairman father does, is embarrassing. As the protagonist in Kenneth Bonert’s novel, The Lion Seeker, Isaac embraces his […]

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