Mine Boy - Peter Abrahams

Descriere Mine Boy - Peter Abrahams

\nOne of the first ever African novels in English by a radical black South African writer: the 1946 classic of one boy's loves, friendships and political awakening as a mine worker in Johannesburg's slums. \n \n \nThe first African novel in English to draw international attention. -- New York Times \n \n \n \nThe forerunner of an entire school of African literary art. -- Sunday Times \n \n \nAnd the black man and the white were like two men alone in the world .... \n \n \nXuma 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 . . . \n \n \nIn 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. \n \n \nWhat readers are saying: \n \n \n \nBeautiful, memorable characters [I've] remembered since my childhood. These are the kind of stories that make the world better for having been written. \n \n \nA seminal work of African fiction... Prose as unadorned as Solzhenitsyn or Hemingway. \n \n \nI can still recall Xuma almost 20 years later ... A beautiful book. \n \n \nAn unsung gem, amazing ... Its simplicity makes the story such a dramatic tale.\n

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Brand

FABER & FABER

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9780571376414

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1

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