The novel traces close community of District Six through its moments of triumph and despair, its loves, its hatreds- and its bizarre characters. In 1966 parts of District Six were declared for white occupation only, in terms of South Africa's notorious Group Areas Act. The inhabitants were forced to leave for the bleak wastelands of the Cape Flats.
- ISBN13 9780864866974
- Publish Date 7 June 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country ZA
- Publisher New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd
- Imprint New Africa Education
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 236
- Language English