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Athol Fugard’s only novel Tsotsi is a powerful and turbulent story set in the 1950s about Tsotsi, a Sophiatown gangster, who stalks the streets leaving pain and terror in his wake. Derelict and deprived, he treats life as it has always treated him, until a chance encounter brings about a strange redemption. It is a white man’s vision of a black ghetto, seen with nightmare clarity and insight. Directed by Gavin Wood, the film Tsotsi won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2006 Academy Awards ceremony.
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Tsotsi, Athol Fugard
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- Released
- 1980
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- Title
- Tsotsi
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Athol Fugard
- Publisher
- AD Donker Publishers
- Released
- 1980
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 167
- ISBN10
- 0868522171
- ISBN13
- 9780868522173
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Contemporary Fiction, School, Africa, Violence, Poverty, Babies, South Africa, Apartheid, Ghetto
- Original title
- Tsotsi
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
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- Athol Fugard’s only novel Tsotsi is a powerful and turbulent story set in the 1950s about Tsotsi, a Sophiatown gangster, who stalks the streets leaving pain and terror in his wake. Derelict and deprived, he treats life as it has always treated him, until a chance encounter brings about a strange redemption. It is a white man’s vision of a black ghetto, seen with nightmare clarity and insight. Directed by Gavin Wood, the film Tsotsi won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2006 Academy Awards ceremony.