Tsotsi - Softcover

Extraordinarily powerful yet pulling back from sentimentality, Fugard's vision of a man discovering he has a future by facing up to his past, can't fail to have a deeper resonance in its South African context. * * The Guardian * * This is a beautifully composed parable, and a concise psychological study of South Africa's lower depths. * * Daily Telegraph * * In lean yet lyrical prose . . . [Athol Fugard] uncannily insinuates himself into the skins of the oppressed majority and articulates its rage and misery and hope. * * New York Times Book Review * * One of the best novels in contemporary South African fiction . . . [Tsotsi] illustrates the cardinal Fugard principle ... that no matter how brutal the system which has destroyed families, broken bodies and reduced homes to rubble, it cannot turn out every light. * * Times Literary Supplement Review * *

Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoe box into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood, to rediscover himself and his capacity for love. Turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2006, Tsotsi's raw power and rare humanity show how decency and compassion can survive against the odds.