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5.0 out of 5 stars
Intense & vivid short novel about a South African street hustler,
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This review is from: Thirteen Cents (Paperback)
Azure is a thirteen-year-old black youth who lives on the streets, does drugs, and earns money by having sex with predominantly white gay men. When a local drug-dealer violently initiates him into the world of the gangs Azure enters a fugue state that precipitates a journey from Cape Town up into the mountains that is also a journey deep into his psyche.
This very readable and at times genuinely disturbing book is written from the point of view of Azure with a naturalness and simplicity which conveys a young adolescent's voice convincingly without precluding the concision, elegance and accuracy that poetry can bring. His candour about his prostitution is unnerving and has an authentic feel to it, as does the author's portrayal of the violent and uncertain lives of drug-dealers and gang-members. |
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Thirteen Cents by K. Sello Duiker (Paperback - September 15, 2011)
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