Halley's Comet
โ Scribed by Hannes Barnard
- Book ID
- 110710851
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House South Africa
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- en-ZA
- Weight
- 393 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781776354818
- ASIN
- B09RG3P5TB
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Pete de Lange must survive as a teenager in a small Natal town during the 1980s, together with his new-found friends, Sarita and Petrus. In a country marked by turmoil and racial conflict, this is not as easy as it seems. Pete and his friends witnessed a horrendous crime, and the perpetrator is on their case. Will justice prevail? In between all of this, Pete must try to make the first rugby team and win the heart of his high-school crush, Renate. This is an excellent Bildungsroman, full of emotion and nostalgia, set in a troubled country where doing the right thing was not always easy.
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In the final years of South Africa's Apartheid era, an unlikely trio—a sheltered white rugby player, a black farmworker's son, and an Indian shopkeeper's daughter—discover the consequences of knowing the truth and having the courage to speak it. Halley's Comet is the coming-of-age story