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Down Second Avenue【Book Review #2】

It was Saturday night. The street lights were on and there was a misty light over the slum location of Marabastad. Everyone was alert, watchful, especially the women. I was watching for the light from torches. I think now that the torchlight was very harassing to us. It was always like this: Saturday night and police torchlights, Saturday night and police whistles, Saturday night and screams, Saturday night and cursing and swearing from the white man. And I was only thirteen.

Down Second Avenue is the story of Eseki, a young boy who, during his growth into adulthood, becomes slowly aware of the injustices, poverty and fear which are a normal part of life for black people in South Africa.

Mphahlele, Ezekiel. (2011). Down Second Avenue. London: Macmillan Readers.

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