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The Violent Gestures of Life

The Violent Gestures of Life

Paperback (30 Jan 2015)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Gift is fourteen when he becomes an inmate of Qalakabusha youth reformatory. Casualty of a 'bad upbringing', he takes out his anger in predictable ways, veering onto a path of crime that lands him behind bars. It is there amid the unremitting harshness of prison life that he has to find in himself the insights that will allow him to emerge from victimhood into personhood.This is a novel about incarceration by one who understands it from the inside.

Book information

ISBN: 9781869142780
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Imprint: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 277
Weight: 280g
Height: 220mm
Width: 150mm
Spine width: 15mm