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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..
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Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left behind in South Africa. It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation -- who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s and finally saw the destruction of apartheid and the birth of a new, democratic South Africa.

Mathabane writes in Miriam's voice based on stories she told him, but he has re-created her unforgettable experience as only someone who also lived through it could. The immediacy of the hardships that brother and sister endured -- from daily school beatings to overwhelming poverty -- is balanced by the beauty of their childhood observations and the true affection that they have for each other..
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Providing a dramatic, moving look at three generations of black South African women, a biography of the author's grandmother, mother, and sister reveals overwhelming personal trials and the repercussions of larger events such as colonialism and apartheid. Reprint..
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This comprehensive guide will provide you with all the tools you need to interpret, understand and analyze the contemporary classic "Kaffir Boy" by Mark Mathabane, which is on the American Library Association's list of "Outstanding Books for the College-Bound and Lifelong Learners" and is taught in schools nationwide. Complete with photographs and maps, this guide provides more information, background and context than any other Kaffir Boy study guide on the market today..
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This is the audio version of Mark Mathabane's contemporary classic "Kaffir Boy," which reached No. 1 on the Washington Post bestsellers list, No. 3 on The New York Times bestsellers list, won a Christopher Award and is on the American Library Association's list of "Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners." It is read by actor Howard Rollins (1950-96) who starred in the critically acclaimed films "Ragtime" and "A Soldier's Story.".
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