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  Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Plays, Penguin)

  by Athol Fugard

  One of theatre's most acclaimed playrights finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17 - year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servents who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's chilhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. Readers: Leon Anddison Brown, Keith David, Bobby Steggart
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  Tsotsi: A Novel

  by Athol Fugard

  Athol Fugard is renowned for his relentless explorations of personal and political survival in apartheid South Africa — which include his now classic plays Master Harold and the Boys and The Blood Knot. Fugard has written a single novel, Tsotsi, which director Gavin Hood has made into a feature film that is South Africa's official entry for the 2006 Academy Awards. Set amid the sprawling Johannesburg... (more)