Thirteen Cents A Novel

Name: Thirteen Cents A Novel
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ISBN: 9780821420362

ISBN-10: 0821420364

ISBN-13: 9780821420362

Edition: 2013

Authors: K. Sello Duiker, Shaun Viljoen

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With an introduction by Shaun ViljoenEvery city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness. Living in this shadow is Azure, a thirteen-year-old who makes his living on the streets, a black teenager sought out by white men, beholden to gang leaders but determined to create some measure of independence in this dangerous world. Thirteen Cents is an extraordinary and unsparing account of a coming of age in Cape Town.Reminiscent of some of the greatest child narrators in…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English