South African born and raised Hollywood screenwriter Helena Kriel is researching the ancient text the Kama Sutra for a movie she's writing. At the same time, she is travelling to India to meet with sages and find answers to the universal challenges of sex and love. While searching for love in her doomed relationships, little does she know she will find her answers in caring for her dying brother, Evan, in South Africa. Set in the mid-1990s, South Africa is just emerging from the darkness of apartheid and bursting with ...
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South African born and raised Hollywood screenwriter Helena Kriel is researching the ancient text the Kama Sutra for a movie she's writing. At the same time, she is travelling to India to meet with sages and find answers to the universal challenges of sex and love. While searching for love in her doomed relationships, little does she know she will find her answers in caring for her dying brother, Evan, in South Africa. Set in the mid-1990s, South Africa is just emerging from the darkness of apartheid and bursting with vibrant chaos. The story zooms in on an intense year in the narrator's life. It centres around the lively and eccentric South African Kriel family: Maya, the combative but inspired mother; Lexi, the sister recently returned from living in a temple in India; Ross, the younger brother diving with sharks; and Helena, the narrator, herself on a journey to understand love and death. At the heart of the story is Evan, her terminally ill 30-year-old gay brother, who has been keeping his illness a shameful secret. Conscious, sensitive, terrified and trying to hang onto sanity as his world changes, Evan becomes paralysed then finally goes blind as death draws ever closer. But it is Evan who leads the family through the fire. In living through her brother's fight to stay alive, the narrator finds herself at the heart of a savage story, one she would not have chosen. How could she know when she set out to India to find ancient solutions to the modern problems of our age that her brother's approaching death would be her greatest teacher? How could she imagine that dying brings everything to life? The Year of Facing Fire is an astoundingly written memoir by one of South Africa's finest writers. It traverses universal themes including love, death and sex, and finds value in the ordinary and great beauty in the uncertain.
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Add this copy of The Year of Facing Fire to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 2019 by MF Books.
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As New. No Jacket. Size: 9x6x0; The wraps are a touch shelf rubbed. There are no inscriptions, and the pages within are crisp, clean and tightly bound.
Add this copy of The Year of Facing Fire: a Memoir to cart. $59.00, very good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 2019 by Jacana Media.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x0; Publication of 245 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK.
Add this copy of Year of Facing Fire to cart. $70.00, good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 2019 by Jacana Media.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 9x0x6; Signed by the author in ink on the half title page. The wraps are tidy overall with little edge wear. The binding is secure. Damp marks on the bottom corner, not affecting text. No other ink inscriptions or annotations. JHK.
