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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Athol Fugard

ISBN: 9781786896155

Year: 2019

Format: Paperback

Fiction, Crime

Tsotsi by
Athol Fugard

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$ 450.00 mxn

Tsotsi by

Athol Fugard

Reviews

"In lean yet lyrical prose … Fugard uncannily insinuates himself into the skins of the oppressed majority and articulates its rage and misery and hope"

New York Times Review

Summary

Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But when he captures a woman one night in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, she shoves a shoebox into his arms: the box contains a baby and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood and rediscover the self he left behind.


Tsotsi’s raw power and rare humanity show how decency and compassion can survive against the odds.

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville