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To ask other readers questions about mine boy, please sign up. It gives the reader an indepth view of what life was like during the height of the goldmining era in south africa, how blacks were treated during this time, and overall, what it was like to be black during this time. Mine boy was the first black south african novel ever written. The paperback edition of a world of strangers, banned in 1962, was. Mine boy peter abrahams haftad 9780435905620 bokus. Xuma is a farm boy who has come from the economically depressed north in search of work in a gold mine. His vision of a man without colour, a raceless society, is shattered by the realities of his underprivileged existence. When xuma moves to johannesburg he is naive country boy, but the impact of harsh city life awakens him to the new ways and values of a radically different world. After getting a job, he moves to his own house in vrededorp. Mine boy by peter abrahams pdf free download ebook.
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