Dog Eat Dog: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series) . Set in 1994, just as South Africa is making its postapartheid transition, Dog Eat Dog captures the hopes -- and crushing disappointments -- that characterize such moments in a nation&r
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| Title | : | Dog Eat Dog: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (422 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821419943 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-07-17 |
| Genre | : |
Dog Eat Dog is a remarkable record of being young in a nation undergoing tremendous turmoil, and provides a glimpse into South Africa’s pivotal kwaito (South African hip-hop) generation and life in Soweto. Set in 1994, just as South Africa is making its postapartheid transition, Dog Eat Dog captures the hopes -- and crushing disappointments -- that characterize such moments in a nation’s history.
Raucous and darkly humorous, Dog Eat Dog is narrated by Dingamanzi Makhedama Njomane, a college student in South Africa who spends his days partying, skipping class, and picking up girls. But Dingz, as he is known to his friends, is living in charged times, and his discouraging college life plays out against the backdrop of South Africa’s first democratic elections, the spread of AIDS, and financial difficulties that threaten to force him out of school.
Editorial : From Booklist
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil,” boasts Dingamanzi Makhedama Njomane, a struggling yet tough-minded first-year university student with a penchant for partying, pop songs, and pretty ladies. Desperate to avoid the “life of the unemployed and unemployable, whose days in the township fold without hope,” Dingz’s approach is practical, and his general attitude fierce. He isn’t above lying or using the race card to survive, because in post-apartheid Soweto, the celebration of democracy is short-lived. Mhlongo describes a searing world that is an “abject pit of red earth,” an underworld of illegal activity and corruption, but one also suffused with music, from crowd-pleasing choruses in Sesotho to the soulful lyrics of Peter Gabriel, and ultimately, hope. Mhlongo’s freshly told novel is the story of a young man determined to never give up trying. --Miriam Tuliao
This is an excellent resource for someone who is just getting into machining work. But perhaps I might have misread Professor Wrone.
There are many other anomalies I have problems with regarding this book. This is an excellent text. If you are looking for honesty without cliche Christian answers this is a great book!. Some of the book's scenery is hard take in -- this is not the Southern California celebrated at the time in pop songs, but a parallel world of unforgiving starkness and brutality, where the wrong word or gesture could cost someone his life.
But through it all shines the author's voice, as a mature man, looking back on himself and on the stations of his journey, not with bitterness, but with compassion and, occasionally, even with a sense of humor. It seems everyone in power appears to be in someone's pocket.
"It is an effort to bankrupt these institutions (public entities) to shrink the public sphere and expand the sources for private revenue (p.154).
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