The story of a young South African black man obsessed with an English girl whom he encounters on the segregated Durban beachfront is told from the narrator's prison cell in this classic African novel. Although no words are exchanged, a connection develops between the two mismatched lovers, leading to an intense and ambiguous sexual encounter. He is charged with rape and receives the death sentence. Reconstructing his own history, his obsession with the girl, and his court proceedings, the narrator offers a powerful examination of the warped racial morality and brutality of apartheid.

Mating Birds

Literature & Fiction

Nkosi, Lewis

Literary

Harpercollins

<p>From a prison cell, an ironic, supremely rational young Black man tells the story of his all-consuming obsession with a white girl with whom he has been silently communicating across a segregated beach</p>

Mating Birds: A Novel

St Martins Pr

Tasks and Masks: An Introduction to African Literature

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature

Lewis Nkosi is probably the first black South African to make an extended study of major white South African writer-Nadine Gordimer,Nobel prize-winnernovelist and essayist and one of the most distinguished contributors to world literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Nadine Gordimer (Writers and Their Work)

History & Criticism

Northcote House Publishers

Cornelius Molapo, an urban dandy, poet, dancer, and political orator, becomes the leader of the South African National Liberation Movement in this work of fiction that exposes the underside of a fictional revolutionary movement in the last years of apartheid. Ordered to lead a peasant uprising in remote Tabanyane, Cornelius becomes a pawn in a much bigger political game. This reluctant leader disappears, but returns as a dedicated revolutionary who would choose death over defeat. In energetic and crafted language, this story brings elements of a political thriller into a sophisticated human drama.

Underground People

Kwela Books

Mandela's Ego

Penguin Random House South Africa

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