آزوري

This is a painfully realistic novel to the utmost degree. A boy about to turn thirteen, whose father died and mother burned alive three years ago, found nothing but the street to live on and grow up among street children and gangs in South Africa. The boy narrates the events in his own words; we see through his eyes everything he endures from the treatment of the people around him from all classes and how he tries to cope with and resist it, for example how a child his age tries to rely on himself and earn his daily bread, forcing him to do anything for that. How far can the ugliness of the story go in a society overwhelmed by chaos and decline? We live with his harsh circumstances and the system's helplessness, and to what extent could it reach... a very realistic novel but we wish it were fiction. About the author: K. Silo Doykerold, in South Africa in 1974, received his education during the height of apartheid in South Africa. He was sent to a Catholic elementary school abroad, then completed his education at Redhill School in Johannesburg. He later traveled to England to attend Huntington School. He returned to South Africa where he enrolled at university to study advertising copywriting. He then studied journalism at Rhodes University in South Africa. He briefly attended the University of Cape Town but was expelled. He became addicted to drugs and underwent treatment at a psychiatric hospital. After his release, he began writing screenplays and advertisements, and his first novel was "Azure," published under the title "13 Cents," which won the Commonwealth Award for Best First Literary Work in Africa in 2001. Then came the novel "The Quiet Violence of Dreams." Afterwards, he suffered a nervous breakdown, which led him to commit suicide by hanging in January 2005.