A walk in the night, and other stories1968

"Alex Le Guma's 1962 novella, first published in Nigeria after being smuggled out of South Africa - follows the events of one single night in Cape Town's District Six. At the centre of this narrative is La Guma's hero, Michael Adonis. Nursing his anger at being sacked by his white boss from his job as a sheet-metal worker, Adonis wanders through the night like a dispossessed ghost. The victim of apartheid's racist laws, he is too self-absorbed in his impotent anger to articulate his frustration, and too narrowly focused on his own troubles to realise that his lot is shared by all those the state labels "non-whites". A Walk in the Night is not only the story of Adonis, but of his friends and their antagonists. It is also the story of 'District Six', which is as much a character as the human protagonists."--BOOK JACKET.