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Mine Boy - 'One of my all-time favourite novels' (Tsitsi Dangarembga) (Paperback, Main)
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Mine Boy - 'One of my all-time favourite novels' (Tsitsi Dangarembga) (Paperback, Main)
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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: 'Beautiful, memorable characters [I've]
remembered since my childhood. These are the kind of stories that
make the world better for having been written.' 'A seminal work of
African fiction ... Prose as unadorned as Solzhenitsyn or
Hemingway.' 'I can still recall Xuma almost 20 years later ... A
beautiful book.' 'An unsung gem, amazing ... Its simplicity makes
the story such a dramatic tale.'
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