A Trojan Affair By Michael Smorenburg

All Books are second hand
Michael Smorenburg
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A town that time forgot simmering with conflict, a preacher dancing to another man’s tune and the naive boy who lights the wick to the powder keg.

When Oxford-raised Dara, a gregarious half-Indian 17-year-old, arrives in the dusty Calvinist village of Carnarvon, he is utterly ill prepared for the bigoted reception that awaits.

Unbeknownst to Dara, let alone the town’s pious community, the devious plans of greedy men who have stirred discontent against the SKA, that the vast machine that Dara’s astrophysicist mother has come to build, are not what they seem.

And so it is Dara, with his dark, goading, Indian features and posh accent, who becomes the lightning rod in a tale that peels back the layers of pent-up rage, xenophobia and generational friction that has been brewing for decades.