Mine Boy tells of the story of Xuma, a countryman, in a large South African industrial city, and impact on him of the new ways and new ways and new values. The author writes of Xuma as a man in transition. He uses him as an instrument to describe the lives and ways of the people who live in the backwaters of the city. Because Xuma is new to it, he can see the hard, disturbing, underprivileged way of life with freshness. This was one of the books which attention to the lives of black South Africans in a white-do country.
Peter Abrahams was born in 1919 in Johannesburg and remained in South Africa until he was twenty. Except for two years at sea as a stoker during the war, he earned his living solely by writing all his adult life. The London Observer sent him to South Africa and Kenya in 1952 for a series of articles which were also run in the Paris Tribune. He also wrote several programs for the BBC. Besides ‘Mine Boy’ he has written many titles including an autobiography, short stories, a book on reportage, and novels.
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