Thirteen cents
By: K. Sello Duiker ; introduction by Shaun Viljoen
Series: Modern African writing
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780821420362
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Every 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.