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Informationen zum Autor Peter Abrahams was born in Vrededorp, near Johannesburg, in 1919. His Ethiopian father worked in the city's gold mines; his mother was the daughter of a black African father and white French mother, thus classifying him as 'coloured'. After his father's death, Abrahams had an impoverished childhood, selling firewood and working for a tinsmith in the city's slums, but won a scholarship to school, where he read voraciously and then became a Marxist journalist. In 1939, he left South Africa for a life in European exile, working aboard ship and at the Communist Daily Worker newspaper. In London, he befriended political activists including pan-Africanist George Padmore and two future heads of state, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. He also organised the Fifth Pan-African Congress as part of the ANC and met James Baldwin and Richard Wright in Paris. Abrahams' trailblazing first book was published in 1942, followed by ten volumes of acclaimed fiction and autobiography dedicated to exposing racial injustice. He settled in Jamaica in 1956 where he lived until his death aged 97, writing and broadcasting radio commentaries; he was married twice, both to white Englishwomen, and had three children. Klappentext One of the first ever African novels in English by a radical black South African writer: the 1946 classic of one boy's loves, friendships and political awakening as a mine worker in Johannesburg's slums. "The first African novel in English to draw international attention." -- New York Times "The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art." -- Sunday Times And the black man and the white were like two men alone in the world .... > In 1946, Peter Abrahams' classic novel Mine Boy exposed South Africa's fledgling racial apartheid system and townships to the world - and its wisdom, vividness and political power endures to this day. What readers are saying: "Beautiful, memorable characters [I've] remembered since my childhood. These are the kind of stories that make the world better for having been written." > > "An unsung gem, amazing ... Its simplicity makes the story such a dramatic tale." Vorwort One of the first ever African novels in English by a radical black South African writer: the 1946 classic of one boy's loves, friendships and political awakening as a mine worker in Johannesburg's slums. Zusammenfassung One of the first ever African novels in English by a radical black South African writer: the 1946 classic of one boy's loves, friendships and political awakening as a mine worker in Johannesburg's slums....
