In the title story, in a Cape Town shantytown called District Six
in the 1960s, Michael Adonis has lost his job at a metal sheet
factory after an argument with a white supervisor. Illuminating the
toxic effects of poverty, police brutality, and violence, the book
paints a stark and unforgettable portrait of Adonis's emotional and
physical destruction in apartheid South Africa. These works reveal
the plight of non-whites in apartheid South Africa, laying bare the
lives of the poor and the outcasts who filled the ghettoes and
shantytowns. Of French and Malagasy stock, involved in South
African politics from an early age, Alex La Guma was arrested for
treason with 155 others in 1956 and finally acquitted in 1960.
During the State of Emergency following the Sharpeville massacre he
was detained for five months. Continuing to write, he endured house
arrest and solitary confinement. La Guma left South Africa as a
refugee in 1966 and lived in exile in London and Havana. He died in
1986. A Walk in the Night and Other Stories reveals La Guma as one
of the most important African writers of his time.
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