Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780812456035)

Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.

This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it.

Author: Mark Mathabane
ISBN-10: 0812456033
ISBN-13: 9780812456035
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 24
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 7112 / Kaffir Boy