Mark Mathabane è un autore, docente ed ex giocatore di tennis universitario. Ha toccato il cuore di milioni di persone in tutto il mondo con la sua autobiografia, "Kaffir Boy". Questo racconto di formazione autobiografico dall'apartheid in Sudafrica è stato tradotto in diverse lingue ed è diventato un bestseller. L'opera di Mathabane evidenzia la resilienza dello spirito umano di fronte all'oppressione.
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto. Yet Mark did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" was supposed to dohe escaped to tell about it.
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Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left behind in South Africa. It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation -- who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s and finally saw the destruction of apartheid and the birth of a new, democratic South Africa. Mathabane writes in Miriam's voice based on stories she told him, but he has re-created her unforgettable experience as only someone who also lived through it could. The immediacy of the hardships that brother and sister endured -- from daily school beatings to overwhelming poverty -- is balanced by the beauty of their childhood observations and the true affection that they have for each other.