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KAFFIR BOY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Mark Mathabane - Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Modified Item
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Country
- South Africa
- Type
- Autobiography
- Personalized
- No
- Signed
- No
- Age Level
- Adults, Young Adults
- ISBN
- 9780684848280
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0684848287
ISBN-13
9780684848280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
736656
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kaffir Boy : the True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Black Studies (Global), General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
Publication Year
1998
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.7 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-025240
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Like . . . Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land . . . in every way as important and exciting."-- The Washington Post, "This is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes . . . from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there."--Chicago Tribune, Chicago TribuneThis is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes...from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there., "This is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes . . . from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there." -- Chicago Tribune, "Like . . . Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land . . . in every way as important and exciting." -- The Washington Post, "Like . . . Claude Brown'sManchild in the Promised Land. . . in every way as important and exciting."--The Washington Post
Dewey Decimal
968.004960092
Synopsis
The classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it., The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it., When first published 20 years ago, Kaffir Boy changed the way the West understood South Africa. As powerful today as when it was first written, Mathabane's remarkable story of life under apartheid is told with brutal honesty and gives the reader a rare glimpse, behind the protests and boycotts, of the daily fear and hunger which was so devastating to the soul. Often compared to Richard Wright's Black Boy, Kaffir Boy is a memoir of growing up in a world where poverty, hopelessness and desperation are constant companions.
LC Classification Number
DT1949.M38A3 1998
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- 07 Sep, 2021
Great Book - Kaffir Boy
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- 10 May, 2017
Excellent autobiography
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