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This book tells the story of Xuma, a countryman in a large South African industrial city, and the impact on him of the new ways and new values of such a different man in transition and thus as an instrument to describe the lives and ways of the people who live in the backwaters of the city. Because Xuma is new to it, he can see the hard, disturbing, under-privileged way of life with freshness and awareness. This was one of the first books which drew attention to the lives of black South Africans in a white-dominated country, and established Peter Abrahams as a major novelist.
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Peter Abrahams was born in 1919 in Johannesburg, South Africa, attended St Peter's College in South Africa and then went to sea for two years as a stoker during the WWII before settling in Britain. There he joined the editorial staff of the communist newspaper, 'The Daily Worker' and began to write in earnest. Abrahams finally settled in Jamaica, in 1957 with his wife and family where he became editor of the West Indian Economist, a commentator on Jamaica's radio and television and a radio news network controller of West Indian News.
His collection of short stories Dark Testament (1942) was followed by the publication of his first novel, Mine Boy (1946), which established Abrahams as an important novelist. He has since published eight works: Song of the City (1945), Path of Thunder (1948), Wild Conquest (1950), A Wreath for Vdomo (1956), A Night of their Own (1965), This Island Now (1966), the autobiographical Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa (1954), and an essay Return to Goli (1953).
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