The Halfcaste

By Christopher J. Ayres

A ribald tragic-comedy in which an irrepressible "youth" from Brooklyn, New York scams his way onto a summer field trip to Africa. Bedford Dawkins winds up in Uganda, England and South Africa, where a violent carjacking initiates a personal transformation that places him in the arms of a young activist and at the forefront of a dangerous post-apartheid political movement of landless people. Politics, history, class and unresolved racial inheritance, both personal and that of nations, propel Bedford "Badeeba" Dawkins into an audacious scheme that will determine the fate of sixty thousand landless South Africans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1434834387
• ISBN13: 9781434834386
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"