Welcome to Our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe
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Textbook (Paperback - New Edition)
- 124pp
- Sales Rank: 132,701
Textbook Information
- ISBN-13: 9780869809952
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: November 2001
- Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2001
- Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 124pp
- Sales Rank: 132,701
- ISBN-13: 9780869809952
- ISBN: 0869809954
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: New Edition
Synopsis
"Welcome To Our Hillbrow is a ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm." Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.
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