Kaffir Boy

Mathabane, Mark

ISBN 10: 0452259436 / ISBN 13: 9780452259430

Published by Plume, 1987

About this Item

Softcover, minor wear, spine creasing, previous owner address label on inside cover and name on first pages, bright pages, a nice reading copy!

Seller Inventory # 178880

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kaffir Boy
• Publisher: Plume
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452259436
• ISBN 13: 9780452259430
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • World History::Africa

About this title

Synopsis

A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarship

Review

"Powerful, intense, inspiring."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Powerful, intense, inspiring."-- "Publishers Weekly"

"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"