false <![CDATA[Kaffir Boy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215439723m/1276568.jpg 126151 14 <i>Kaffir Boy</i> does for apartheid-era South Africa what Richard Wright's <i>Black Boy</i> did for the segregated American South. In stark prose, Mathabane describes his life growing up in a nonwhite ghetto outside Johannesburg--and how he escaped its horrors. Hard work and faith in education played key roles, and Mathabane eventually won a tennis scholarship to an American university. This is not, needless to say, an opportunity afforded to many of the poor blacks who make up most of South Africa's population. And yet Mathabane reveals their troubled world on these pages in a way that only someone who has lived this life can. 121500 1986 Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa total:1429|5:556|4:567|3:250|2:48|1:8| 1429 5902 1980 229 126151 0684848287 9780684848280 1247 199 Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255818083m/126151.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126151.Kaffir_Boy_An_Autobiography_The_True_Story_of_a_Black_Youth_s_Coming_of_Age_in_Apartheid_South_Africa 5 1 false Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 18:37:12 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 16:29:48 -0700 2008 Ms Houseman
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Mark Mathabane
Kaffir Boy
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007
354 pp. $15.00
978-0-684-84828-0

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0684848287

Kaffir Boy is an extraodinary and very inspiring book. It can be compared with the book "Roots" because of it's strong language, incredible detail, and connection to society in Africa. Kaffir Boy takes place halfway acro...more...]]> 1276568 0452264715 9780452264717 85 12 Kaffir Boy 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215439723m/1276568.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1276568.Kaffir_Boy 4 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1990 Wed Jun 25 09:54:59 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 10:46:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 126151 0684848287 9780684848280 1247 199 Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255818083m/126151.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126151.Kaffir_Boy_An_Autobiography_The_True_Story_of_a_Black_Youth_s_Coming_of_Age_in_Apartheid_South_Africa 4 0 false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 19:46:53 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 19:06:09 -0700 2008 Kaffir Boy
New York: Free Press, 1998
368 pp. $15.00
978-0-684-84828-0
"The tsotsis caught up with him before he even reached the street. Their gleaming weapons of death remorselessly went about their unfinished, infernal mission."(Mathabane 164...more...]]> 126151 0684848287 9780684848280 1247 199 Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255818083m/126151.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126151.Kaffir_Boy_An_Autobiography_The_True_Story_of_a_Black_Youth_s_Coming_of_Age_in_Apartheid_South_Africa 5 0 false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 12:16:21 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 17:52:30 -0700 2008 Kaffir Boy
New York: Free Press, 1998
368 pp. $15.00
978-0-684-84828-0
The ghetto of Alexandra is a one-square-mile pit covered in a heavy blanket of smog that is called home by nearly 600,000 black South Africans. Under South Africa's system of legalized segr...more...]]> 126152 0833502115 9780833502117 84 16 Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheir South Africa 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171909665m/126152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126152.Kaffir_Boy_The_True_Story_of_a_Black_Youth_s_Coming_of_Age_in_Apartheir_South_Africa 3 0 false Fri May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 21:10:51 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 19:37:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1276568