A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma

A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma

In this previously banned collection of seven short stories, Alex La Guma vividly reveals the plight of the poor and oppressed in apartheid South Africa.

The greatest South African novelist of the 20th century * The Times *
His spirit of hope lives on in the books he left usHe is a central figure alongside Chinua Achebe [in] the making and consolidation of modern African literature -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
A Walk in the Night... achieved in 90 pages what other African writers had tried to achieve in the course of many years -- Wole Soyinka
One of the world's great novelists... A man who was not only a prodigiously talented writer but also a valiant hero of the anti-apartheid struggle * The Root *

Alex La Guma was born in 1924 in District Six, Cape Town, and is revered as one of South Africa's leading activists and writers. La Guma was involved in political activism from a young age, having joined the Plant Workers Union of the Metal Box Company during his first job at a factory. He was subsequently fired for his role in organising a strike for better working conditions. He later became a founding member of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in 1953 and was repeatedly imprisoned by the South African government due to his anti-apartheid and communist activities.
Despite a total ban being issued on all his speeches and writings, his work is internationally renowned. His most famous works include A Walk in the Night (1962), In the Fog of the Seasons' End (1972), and Time of the Butcherbird (1979), all of which challenge the social systems of colonialism in South Africa.
After his release from prison in 1966, he and his family were exiled from South Africa. They relocated to London and later Cuba where La Guma served as the representative of the African National Congress.
La Guma died in 1985.

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ISBN 13	9781035906147
ISBN 10	1035906147
Title	A Walk in the Night
Author	Alex La Guma
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2024-03-14
Number of pages	192
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