num_pages: 168
description: Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow-side lurking in its lap: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope and moments of happiness. This book therefore is an extraordinary and unsparing account of the coming of age on the street in Cape Town - a place of dislocation and uncertainty, desperation with glimpses of happiness.This novel won the coveted Commonwealth Writer's Prize.
language: English
title: Thirteen Cents
titlecomplete: Thirteen Cents
genres: Fiction, African Literature, Magical Realism, South Africa, School, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Race, Africa
ratings_count: 725
places: Cape Town
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book in Africa
publisher: New Africa Books