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A Green Island in a Black Sea -- A Novel of South Africa during Apartheid: A Story of Betrayal [Kindle Edition]

James Raymond Fisher (Author)
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      Book Description

      Publication Date: January 15, 2014
      A Green Island in a Black Sea is a novel of South Africa in the tumultuous times of apartheid. A young American executive, and his family from the Midwest, is sent to this country to form a new conglomerate anchored with his company's subsidiary. It is an immediate "clash of cultures," and values. Seamus "Dirk" Devlin, the protagonist of the story, finds himself betrayed by everything he thought he was, and believed to be true. This results in a shattering of his pretentious façade that he took to be real, and to be him. It leads to him going native in a way that reflected the year 1968, when the past was cut off from the future, and everything changed. This destabilizing wrenching in 1968 was not only true for him and South Africa, but for the United States and Western societies as well. The reader is invited to walk with Devlin towards his emotional breakdown while, paradoxically, his training as a chemical engineer and executive is the only thing that keeps him upright and functioning. The book pulsates with the principals of the story -- Americans, Afrikaners and Brits and Bantu -- where the villains and the saints have the same stripes.

      CAVEAT! This is to forewarn the reader of explicit sexual content in this novel that some readers might find disturbing or offensive.

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