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Summer of Reckoning (Paperback)
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Summer of Reckoning (Paperback)
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List price R253
Loot Price R207
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The story takes place in the suffocating atmosphere of a social
housing estate in the south of France. Sixteen-year-old Celine and
her sister Jo, fifteen, dream of escaping to somewhere far from
their daily routine, far from their surly, alcoholic father and
uncaring mother, both struggling to make ends meet. That summer
Celine falls pregnant, devastating news that reopens deep family
wounds. Those of the mother Severine whose adolescence was
destroyed by her early pregnancy and subsequent marriage with
Manuel. Those of Manuel, grandson of Spanish immigrants, who takes
refuge in alcoholism to escape the open disdain of his in-laws.
Faced with Celine's refusal to name the father, Manuel needs a
guilty party and Said, a childhood friend of the girls and
conveniently Arab, seems to fit the role perfectly. In the
suffocating heat of summer Manuel embarks on a drunken mission of
revenge. A dark and upsetting account of an ailing society, filled
with silent and murderous rage.
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