Son

Len and his father, Son, couldnt be more different. If Len is a recently divorced man of 42 who just wants sex, then his old man is a World War Two veteran in his late 80s, who is impossible. Len is a decadent subeditor at a South African newspaper, the old man is an old-school puritan. They have nothing in common, except that theyre both storytellers. Len thinks hes heard all the stories before, but then one day hungover as usual he decides to tease a narrative out of the old man. He wants to see if there is more to the endlessly repetitive good-time stories. And slowly the old man starts revealing how just one small, shocking incident actually affected him (and his family) for the rest of his days. The horror of a past war is brought to a head in a country where 50 people whether children, women or the aged are murdered not a year, month or week, but a day.

Paperback. English. MF Books. 2017. Good Condition.