House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Condition: Great Hardcover

Price: R60

Size: Large

In this page-turner with a beating heart (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California. But this becomes contested territory when a recent immigrant from the Middle Easta former colonel in the Iranian Air Forcebecomes determined to restore his familys dignity through buying the house. When the womans lover, a married cop, intervenes, he goes to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus IIIs unforgettable characterspeople with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand oncareen toward inevitable conflict. An affecting, subtle portrait of two hostile but equally fragile camps (The New Yorker), their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we still live in today, two decades after this books first publication. (Goodread)