RICHARD RIVE - BUCKINGHAM PALACE DISTRICT SIX - BOKAAP ABRAHAMS FAMILY 1950's EDUCATIONAL WITH NOTES

This South African novel sets whistles, shouted greetings, snatches of song and laughter.  Written in tribute to people of District Six. Richard Rive grew up in District Six, and his novel '' 'Buckingham Palace,' District Six'' is a rich, rather old-fashioned hymn to the community he knew as a boy in the 1950's. The story focuses on the denizens of ''a row of five mouldy cottages called 'Buckingham Palace' by the locals,'' and the action rarely leaves the block. As Zoot September, tap-dancer, street poet and leader of a good-natured band of thieves ''It's only in the District that I feel safe. District Six is like an island.

David Phillip old school softback unabridged educational edition with notes by Robin Malan in protector, educational edition 1996 with small school sticker on 1st end page, 212 pages, well-binded clean white pages in protector.