The  unfamous five
By: Nedine Moonsamy
Publisher: Modjaji Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781928215806; 9781928215813
Subjects: Teenagers; Fiction
Description: Seeking adventure during the school holidays, five teenagers from the Indian suburb of Lenasia accidentally witness a violent crime that has a lasting impact on their lives. Starting in June of 1993, the novel follows the Five through the next decade as they confront, both as individuals and as a group, questions of who they are, who they are allowed to be, and who they are expected to be in the New South Africa. They must query what role they will allow tradition, ancestry, sexuality, skin colour, love, money and culture to play in their lives as they attempt to forge new paths, sometimes stumbling along the way, but always willing to give one another a helping hand.