The Year of Facing Fire

A Memoir

Helena Kriel

ISBN:

9781928420477

Epub ISBN:

9781928420644

Publisher:

Melinda Ferguson Books

Date Released:

April 2019

Price (incl. VAT):

R 315.00

Format:

Soft cover, 256pp


About this book:

An astoundingly written memoir, the book traverses universal themes of love, death and sex.Set in the mid 1990's, as South Africa emerges from the darkness of apartheid, at the heart of the story is Helena's terminally ill gay brother who's been keeping his illness a shameful secret. Conscious, terrified and trying to hang onto sanity, he becomes paralyzed, then blind as death draws closer. But it is Evan who leads the family through the fire.

 
 

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