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Oxford University Press (2000), 40 pages
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The North Wind and the Sun are having a competition to see who is the stronger. The Wind blows and blows. Leaves fall off the trees, ships start sinking, all the animals are frightened. Surely nothing can top this. The Wind has to be the more powerful. But does the Sun know something the Wind doesn't? (paperback reissue of ISBN 0-19-272168-2)
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Torn between his adoration for his wife and young son and the irresistible draw of the criminal underworld, Shatterproof Bhekuzulu is headstrong, smart, cunning, and strangely endearing. The Lazarus of the tsotsi world, Shatterproof dithers between his need for redemption and his love for illicit
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scheming. Violent, funny, and intriguing, this story paints a colorful picture of a South African hustler during the apartheid—one so magnetic it hurts to watch him dig his own grave, one disastrous decision at a time. Show Less
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English
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40 p.; 10.7 inches
ISBN
0192724045 / 9780192724045