Mark Mathabane, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $19.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-02-581800-2
In this powerful account of growing up black in South Africa, a young writer makes us feel intensely the horrors of apartheid. Living illegally in a shanty outside Johannesburg, Johannes (renamed Mark) Mathabane and his illiterate family endured the
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Mark Mathabane, Author Collier Books $10 (303p) ISBN 978-0-02-034530-5
The absorbing sequel to the author's Kaffir Boy , one of the best books ever written about apartheid, this tells of Mathabane's life in the U.S. since he arrived here at age 18 in 1978 on a tennis scholarship, describing his painful experiences at...
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Mark Mathabane, Author Scribner Book Company $19.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-684-19043-3
Kaffir Boy (1984), one of the best books ever written about apartheid, became a bestseller everywhere but in South Africa, where it is banned. This absorbing sequel, about Mathabane's life in the U.S. since he arrived here at age 18 in 1978 on a...
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Mark Mathabane, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (366p) ISBN 978-0-06-016496-6
Mathabane won a wide readership with Kaffir Boy , his account of growing up in apartheid South Africa, and its sequel Kaffir Boy in America. Here he presents a gritty oral history of his grandmother, mother and sister, who overcame relationships...
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Mark Mathabane. Skyhorse, $24.99 (242p) ISBN 978-1-5107-1261-4
South Africa–born Mathabane (Kaffir Boy) examines race relations in the United States through the lens of racial healing principles employed in Mandela’s postapartheid South Africa in this fervent plea for a better future. He espouses the philosophy
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Mark Mathabane, Author, Gail Mathabane, With HarperCollins Publishers $20 (274p) ISBN 978-0-06-016495-9
In a stirring interracial love story, black author Mark Mathabane ( Kaffir Boy ), born in a South African ghetto, and his white American wife, Gail, recall in alternating chapters their meeting as journalism students; stormy courtship and marriage,...
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Mark Mathabane, Author, Cassandra J. Pappas, Photographer, Gail Mathabane, With HarperCollins Publishers $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-092371-6
In this stirring interracial love story, black author Mark Mathabane ( Kaffir Boy) , born in a South African ghetto, and his white American wife, Gail, recall in alternating chapters their meeting, courtship, marriage and decision to have children. (
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