![]() ![]() “A 13-year old South African boy turns tricks in Cape Town in Duiker's emotional whiplash of a debut novel, available in the US for the first time…. ![]() “Duiker is to literature what Steve Biko is to politics, both having died at the tender age of 30 but leaving indelible footprints in our collective memory.” ![]() Told from Azure’s perspective, Duiker weaves a narrative that lays bare the violence, exploitation, racial and sexual politics found just under the surface of South African society.” Sello Duiker’s short novel, Thirteen Cents is simultaneously gruesome, violent, deeply disturbing, whimsical, and beautiful…. “A gritty, dagga-infused tour through a Cape Town underworld of street children, hustlers, and cruising ‘johns.’” Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Africa) ![]()
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