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Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (1998, Paperback, Reissue) 
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (1998, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (1998, Paperback, Reissue)

Publisher: Free Pr
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0684848287
ISBN-13: 9780684848280
Product ID: EPID736656
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Publication Date:1998-10-01
Edition Description:Reissue

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Length:354 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Publisher's Note
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.

Written with courage and conviction, Mark Mathbane's reveals the extraordinary memoir of growing up in a world under apartheid. B&W photo insert.

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      Kaffir Boy reveals the chilling truth of apartheid SA
    Review created: 10/30/07
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    I have never read an autobiography (or a book of any kind) that has made such an enormous impact on my life. Mark Mathabane writes his own life story from a detached perspective and it is impossible to put down. One has to keep reminding himself that this is not a piece of fiction but actually the story of someone's life.
    This autobioraphy is powerfully raw. Everyone needs to read "Kaffir Boy."


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