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Touch my Blood - Couverture souple

Khumalo, Fred

 
9781415200049: Touch my Blood
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1415200041 ISBN 13 : 9781415200049
Editeur : Umuzi, 2006

Synopsis

As a teenager, Fred Khumalo greeted his friends with a handshake and the words "touch my blood". It implied friendship and trust. The saying became his name. More than that, it became the way he viewed the world. Everything touched Fred Khumalo. Twice he was bewitched. Twice his father - the "country bumpkin" - took him to inyangas to have the "demons" banished. Twice his mother - the "city girl" - took him to a doctor to have the "fevers" cured. He smoked dagga with conmen and criminals, he pickpocketed "corpses" on the Friday night trains and worked as a gardener in the larney suburbs. He studied journalism and shacked up with whiteys in a commune, for a while the only darkie in a crazy swirl of booze, drugs and sex. And then the bloody fighting that tore apart KwaZulu/Natal in the 1980s touched his life and sucked him into a place of horror and violence that threatened to destroy him. When a friend died in his arms with the worlds "They really got me, Touch my blood. They really got me", Khumalo realised that if he was to outlive the madness, he had to run. From the journalist and Sunday Times columnist comes a startlingly honest, humorous and poignant autobiography about growing up in a time of laughter and heartache.

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À propos de l'auteur

Fred Khumalo is the author of the novels The Longest March, Dancing the Death Drill (winner of a Humanities and Social Sciences Award and adapted for the West End), Bitches’ Brew (joint winner of a European Union Literary Award), and Seven Steps to Heaven. His memoir, Touch My Blood, was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction in 2007, and #ZuptasMustFall and Other Rants was published in 2016. His latest book of short stories, A Coat of Many Colours, appeared in 2021, while Talk of the Town won the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award in 2020. He holds a master’s degree in Creative Writing from Wits University and is a PhD can­didate at the University of Pretoria. He lives in Johannesburg.

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Éditeur
Umuzi
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1415200041
ISBN 13 
9781415200049
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
196
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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