description: A run-down block of flats in central Cape Town becomes a young girl's gallery of self-discovery in this moving story of the emotional carnage caused by civil wars in Africa. Drug dealers from Nigeria, Zimbabwean wire-workers, immigrants from Rwanda and Sudan, a Mozambican refugee - all escaping the ruins of war in the peace of the new South Africa - bear down on her fragile world, then scoop her into theirs. "Skyline" is an unflinching look at one girl's coming of age in the colourful and violent streets of a city waking up to the rest of Africa.
language: English
title: Skyline
titlecomplete: Skyline
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 111
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Percy FitzPatrick Award
publisher: New Africa Books