The Question and Answer section for Mine Boy is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Though Mine Boy was published two years before the first official apartheid law was enacted, the novel depicts the racial separation that would be increased during the apartheid era. The illegal beer selling Leah engages in results from a law that...
The novel is narrated from a third-person omniscient perspective. While the point of view often stays with the protagonist Xuma, it occasionally switches to secondary characters.
Mine Boy distinguished itself as a work that depicted, for the first...
Narrated from a third-person omniscient perspective, Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boy opens in the protagonist Xuma’s point of view. Tired and carrying a small bundle, Xuma walks through Malay Camp, Johannesburg, in the dark, listening to a distant clock...
