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Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost (Paperback)
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Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost (Paperback)
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A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that
exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly
omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds. The picaresque hero of
this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con
man. Duggie's response to being confined to the lowest level of
South Africa's oppressive and humiliating racial hierarchy is to
one-up its absurdity with his own glib logic and preposterous
schemes. Duggie's story, as one critic puts it, offers "an
encyclopedic catalogue of rip-offs, swindles, and hoaxes" that
regularly land him in jail and rely on his white targets' refusal
to admit a black man is capable of outsmarting them. Duggie
exploits South Africa's bureaucratic pass laws and leverages his
artificial leg every chance he gets. As "a worthless embarrassment
to the authorities and a bad example to the convicts," Duggie even
manages to get himself thrown out of jail. From Duggie's
Depression-era childhood in urban Johannesburg to World War II and
the rise of the white supremacist apartheid regime to his final,
bitter triumph, Boetie's narrative celebrates humanity's relentless
drive to survive at any cost. This new edition of Boetie's
out-of-print classic features a recently discovered photograph of
the author, an introduction replete with previously unpublished
research, numerous annotations, and is accompanied by Lionel
Abrahams' haunting poem, "Soweto Funeral," composed after attending
Boetie's interment, all of which render the text accessible to a
new generation of readers.
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