Mine boy /
Abrahams, Peter, 1919-2017.
Mine boy / PRINT Peter Abrahams ; illustrated by Ruth Yudelowitz. - London : Heinemann Educational Books , [1963, ©1946]. - 252 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. - African writers series ; 6 . - African writers series ; 6. .
Xuma arrives in Johannesburg innocent from a less complex way of life. Xuma experiences police brutality as an innocent bystander. The only place where Xuma can regard himself as a man is deep within the bowels of the mine, far removed from pass laws, racial prejudice, and a Johannesburg which always regards him, not as the strong man that he is, but as a boy.
0435905627 9780435905620 0435900064 9780435900069
GB6320058 bnb GB63-20058
007658882 Uk 010260349 Uk
1900-1999
Gold mines and mining--South Africa--Fiction.
Migrant labor--South Africa--Fiction.
Blacks--South Africa--Fiction.
Race discrimination--South Africa--Fiction.
South African fiction--20th century.
South African fiction.
Migrant labor.
Social conditions.
Race discrimination.
Blacks.
South Africa.
Johannesburg
PR9897 / .A15 1963
F Ja Abr
Mine boy / PRINT Peter Abrahams ; illustrated by Ruth Yudelowitz. - London : Heinemann Educational Books , [1963, ©1946]. - 252 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. - African writers series ; 6 . - African writers series ; 6. .
Xuma arrives in Johannesburg innocent from a less complex way of life. Xuma experiences police brutality as an innocent bystander. The only place where Xuma can regard himself as a man is deep within the bowels of the mine, far removed from pass laws, racial prejudice, and a Johannesburg which always regards him, not as the strong man that he is, but as a boy.
0435905627 9780435905620 0435900064 9780435900069
GB6320058 bnb GB63-20058
007658882 Uk 010260349 Uk
1900-1999
Gold mines and mining--South Africa--Fiction.
Migrant labor--South Africa--Fiction.
Blacks--South Africa--Fiction.
Race discrimination--South Africa--Fiction.
South African fiction--20th century.
South African fiction.
Migrant labor.
Social conditions.
Race discrimination.
Blacks.
South Africa.
Johannesburg
PR9897 / .A15 1963
F Ja Abr