{"product_id":"the-lion-seeker-9780544334519","title":"The Lion Seeker","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNational Jewish Book Award Winner: A family saga set in WWII-era South Africa offering both \"page-turning thrills [and] a painful meditation on destiny\" (\u003cem\u003eNPR, All Things Considered\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCalled \"a latter-day \u003cem\u003eExodus\u003c\/em\u003e\" by \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lion Seeker\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic historical novel centered on the life of Isaac Helger. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, he runs around the streets of Johannesburg as a young hooligan and dreams of getting rich. But his parents are still haunted by the memories of the anti-Semitic pogroms they escaped, even as Isaac secretly pursues a relationship with a gentile girl.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs the Nazi threat rises, Isaac is caught between his mother's urgent ambition to bring her sisters to safety out of the old world, and his own desire to enjoy the freedoms of the new. But soon his mother's carefully guarded secret takes them to the diamond mines, where mysteries are unveiled in the desert rocks and Isaac begins to learn the bittersweet reality of success bought at any cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKENNETH BONERT's fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, Grain, \u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Fiddlehead, \u003c\/i\u003e and his journalism has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. Born in South Africa, Bonert is the grandson of Lithuanian immigrants.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676073034002,"sku":"9780544334519","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15567c40-714f-48f4-ab45-ee19a371e464.jpg?v=1761041697","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lion-seeker-9780544334519","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}