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<title>Time of the Butcherbird</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/alex-la-guma/time_of_the_butcherbird.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/alex-la-guma/time_of_the_butcherbird_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Time of the Butcherbird" alt ="Time of the Butcherbird"/></a><br//><b>In his final novel, renowned author Alex La Guma explores the tensions of a South African town fraught with the desire for revenge.</b><br/>Out in the flat, featureless countryside, a small mining town in South Africa is refused access to water by their oppressors. Knowing that the rain is their last chance for survival, all they can do is wait...<br/>As the dry summer wears on, the white Afrikaner townspeople are unaware of the storm brewing around them as, deep in the bush, a shepherd recalls the riddle of the butcherbird.<br/>Glimpsing into precolonial days and the aftermath of the Boer War,<i> Time of the Butcherbird</i> is a powerful reminder of the communities that were wrecked by conflict and dispossessed of their own land. <br/>'The greatest South African novelist of the 20th century.' <i><b>The Times</b></i><br/>'A central figure alongside Chinua Achebe [in] the making and consolidation of modern African literature.' <b>Ngugi wa Thiong'o</b>]]></description>
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<title>A Walk in the Night</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/alex-la-guma/a_walk_in_the_night.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/alex-la-guma/a_walk_in_the_night_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="A Walk in the Night" alt ="A Walk in the Night"/></a><br//><b>In this previously banned collection of </b><b>seven short stories, Alex La Guma vividly reveals the plight of the poor and oppressed </b><b>in apartheid South Africa.</b><br/><b><br/></b>Characterised by his striking style and colourful dialogue, La Guma's stories explore experiences of racism and social inequality in various settings, from an overcrowded prison to a Portuguese restaurant. In the title story, 'A Walk in the Night', a factory worker loses his job after an argument with a white supervisor. His subsequent descent into helpless rage is played out in rich detail, illuminating the toxic effects of poverty, police brutality, and gang violence.<br/><b><br/></b>Each story in the collection lays bare the struggles of those living in 1960s South Africa, offering poignant moments of hope and cementing Alex La Guma as one of the most important writers of his time. <br/><b><br/></b>'The greatest South African novelist of the 20th century.' <i><b>The...]]></description>
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