This is a story of twin boys – identical in appearance but in
nothing else. Ashraf is all rage and action – a lover of the real.
Firoze is a dreamer and reader - a lover of the ideal. The Dawood
family is from Muslim Fordsburg. The father (formally at least) is
a merchant and the mother a part-time philosophy lecturer at Wits.
Their uncle, known universally as Ten-Per-Cent, lives in the house
and shares the ginger-beer factory business with his brother. The
story begins in Johannesburg but ends in the US. Ashraf is jailed
in Fort Dix Prison in Texas, and Firoze is just settling in New
York with his new young wife. Among the cast of characters are
Mohammed Atta (of 9/11 notoriety), George Bush, a Pakistani
Brigadier in Peshawar, a host of lawyers and assorted crooks of one
kind or another, plus various Korean massage parlour girls. Firoze
is the narrator and he tells the story while in prison – before
finally tricking Ashraf into changing places. The story offers
itself as an unconventional family memoir that tells the story of
the fortunes of a family of crooks – the green-eyed thieves. The
mother is an accomplished shoplifter; the father a master of all
forms of theft – including all the suits of the Aga Khan who
happened to be the same size as Dawood senior. Firoze, the
sophisticated dreamer, is not much good at thieving but Ashraf
lives for little else.
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