Added: Jul 26, 2010
From: ChrisBenjaminWriting
Duration: 2:2
Drive-by Saviours: September 2010... Demoralized at his job and dissatisfied with his life, Mark punches the clock with increasing indifference. He wanted to help people; he'd always believed that as a social worker he would be able to make a difference in people's lives. But after six years of bureaucracy and pushing paper Mark has lost hope. All that changes when he meets Bumi, an Indonesian restaurant worker. Moved from his small fishing village and sent to a residential school under the authoritarian Suharto regime, Bumi's radical genius and obsessive-compulsive disorder raise suspicion among his paranoid neighbours. When several local children die mysteriously the neighbours' fear reaches a fevered pitch and Bumi is forced to flee to Canada. Brought together by a chance encounter on the subway, Mark and Bumi develop a friendship that forces them to confront their pasts. Moving gracefully between Canada and Indonesia and through the two men's histories, Drive-by Saviours is the story of desire and connection among lonely people adrift in a crowded world. It is the latest offering from Roseway Publishing. "Bringing to mind Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Chris Benjamin's prose is beautiful, engaging and taut with tension as it transports us back and forth between several worlds." Carla Gunn, author of Amphibian "Like" it at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Drive-by-Saviours/128468323858905?ref=ts.
Channel: Entertainment
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