Kaffir Boy:The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age inApartheid South Africa **SIGNED**

Mathabane, Mark 1960-

ISBN 10: 0452259436 / ISBN 13: 9780452259430

Edité par Plume Book/ New American Library, New York NY, 1987

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PRICE REDUCED! In his debut book Mathabane presents his autobiography of a supportive family in 1960s and 70s South Africa as apartheid worked to keep him down, but a white family who employed his grandmother gave him books and a tennis racket that led to his meeting Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe. This copy is in excellent condition as a reprint paperback of the 1986 Macmillan hardback.It is a first printing simply signed by Mathabane on the title page. The book has slight wear, an owner's name on the inside cover and will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.PRICE REDUCED!

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Kaffir Boy:The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age inApartheid South Africa **SIGNED**
• Éditeur: Plume Book/ New American Library, New York NY
• Date de parution: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0452259436
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780452259430
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Book by Mathabane Mark

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.