Mine Boy [electronic resource] : 'One of my all-time favourite novels' (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
Peter Abrahams2022
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'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African
novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times 'The
forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday Times And the
black man and the white were like two men alone in the world .. Xuma will never
forget the day he arrived in the Johannesburg slums: the charismatic woman who
takes him in, the brutal police raids, the fights, friendships, dancing,
drinking and romances - yet it soon feels like home. But when he becomes a
leader in the city's gold mines, he is shocked by the racist treatment of the
labourers. And as he begins to question whether 'man could be without colour',
Xuma stages an act of defiance that changes his life forever . . . In 1946,
Peter Abrahams' classic novel Mine Boy exposed South Africa's fledgling racial
apartheid system and townships to the world - and its wisdom, vividness and
political power endures to this day. What readers are saying: 'Beau...
Peter Abrahams, Author
United Kingdom : Faber & Faber, 2022
1 online resource (1 text file) (357763.0)
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
9780571376421
English
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