''One of my all-time favourite novels.'' Tsitsi Dangarembga
''The first African novel in English to draw international attention.'' New York Times
''The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.- Sunday Times
And the black man and the white were like two men alone in the world -.
Xuma will never forget the day he arrived in the Johannesburg slums: the charismatic woman who takes him in, the brutal police raids, the fights, friendships, dancing, drinking and romances - yet it soon feels like home. But when he becomes a leader in the city''s gold mines, he is shocked by the racist treatment of the labourers. And as he begins to question whether -man could be without colour-, Xuma stages an act of defiance that changes his life forever . . .
In 1946, Peter Abrahams- classic novel Mine Boy exposed South Africa-s fledgling racial apartheid system and townships to the world - and its wisdom, v
