Down Second Avenue

Es'kia Mphahlele, F. H. Cornish

Macmillan Education

2011

120 páginas

4h 0m

ISBN-10: 0230408672

"The story of Eseki, a young boy who, during his growth into adultlhood, becomes slowly aware of the injustices, poverty and fear which are a normal part of life for black people in South Africa"--Back cover.

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Book review

Down Second Avenue is a autobiography book about Ezekiel’s experience growing up in segregated South Africa. It was written in 1959.
The book recounts Ezekiel’s life story from when he was a young boy living in Marabastad through to when he became an adult and run away the country with his family to go into exile. Ezekiel description of life under apartheid is intense it details a daily life of severe poverty and brutal police supervision under the submission of an apartheid regime.
I liked the book because its narrative is passionate and, despite detailing his own life, the author had known how to do it in the right way to not to get boring, and because it vividly shows us how difficult life was for South Africans.
I would recommend this book for people who like to know more about Apartheid in South Africa.