Verified Purchase. Kenneth Bonert's new novel, "The Lion Seeker", will garner Amazon reviews that'll run the gamut between 5 star and 1 star. And all the reviewers will have the right reasons for either being repelled by the book, or as in my case, finding it brilliantly written/5(75). Bonert's coming-of-age novel captures the reader because of its historical perspective, diverse characters, and narrative through the lives of immigrants. What other novels have intrigued readers in this same manner? How does The Lion Seeker use or upend these narrative traditions? How does it compare to other Jewish literature: Saul Bellow. Kenneth Bonert's new novel, "The Lion Seeker", will garner Amazon reviews that'll run the gamut between 5 star and 1 star. And all the reviewers will have the right reasons for either being repelled by the book, or as in my case, finding it brilliantly written/5(75).
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. Kenneth Bonert is a South African-Canadian writer. His debut novel The Lion Seeker won both the National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. The Lion Seeker was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction, and the www.doorway.ru First Novel Award. Kenneth Bonert's new novel, "The Lion Seeker", will garner Amazon reviews that'll run the gamut between 5 star and 1 star. And all the reviewers will have the right reasons for either being repelled by the book, or as in my case, finding it brilliantly written.
A first-round knock-out for Kenneth Bonert.” —Richard Poplak, author of Ja No Man: Growing Up White in Apartheid-Era South Africa “The Lion Seeker is a powerful and thoroughly engrossing novel, grand in scope, richly imagined, full of dramatic incident, and crafted in a prose that is by turns rough-hewn and lyrical. To read it is to be reminded how great a great novel can be.”. A powerful family saga, The Lion Seeker is a thrilling ride through the life of Isaac Helger, from redheaded hooligan on the streets of Johannesburg to striving young man on the make. Growing up in the shadow of World War II, Isaac is caught between his mother’s urgent ambition to bring her sisters to safety out of the old world and his own desire for the freedoms of the new. lion seeker kenneth bonert below. Freebooksy is a free eBook blog that lists primarily free Kindle books but also has free Nook books as well. There's a new book listed at least once a day, but often times there are many listed in one day, and you can download one or all of them.
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