6/28/2023 0 Comments Miriam's Song by Mark Mathabane![]() ![]() Her courage and sacrifice turned Mathabane's life around. ![]() ![]() His illiterate mother believed that education was the only way out of the ghetto. ![]() A love of learning and books and his dreams of tennis stardom, inspired by Arthur Ashe, carried him from despair, hate and anger to possibility and hope. and is on the American Library Association's List of "Outstanding Books for the College-Bound."īorn of destitute parents whose $10-a-week wage could not pay the rent for their shack or put food on the table, Mathabane spent the first 18 years of his life as the eldest of seven children in a one-square-mile ghetto that was home to more than 200,000 blacks.Ī childhood of devastating poverty, terrifying police raids and relentless humiliation drove him to the brink of suicide at age ten. Today, the book is used in classrooms across the U.S. 1 on the Washington Post bestsellers list, and was translated into several languages. 3 on The New York Times bestsellers list and to No. Telling the true story of his coming of age under apartheid in South Africa, the book won a prestigious Christopher Award, rose to No. Mark Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational autobiography, Kaffir Boy. ![]()
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