The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club

The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club

by Lauren Liebenberg (Author)

Synopsis

Goaded by the pulse of Elvis, Little Richard and the kwela kwela rhythms of the black ghettos, best friends Tommy and Chris, twelve-year-olds growing up on the mines of Johannesburg, look to prove their grit on the slumyard dance floors of the West Rand Cons Mine and in the sweat-soaked ring of the boxing club.

But Tommy has a little sister Cecilia, sweet, whimsical and vulnerable. Unwittingly, she will make the friends face a choice between courage and cowardice, between loyalty and betrayal.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Virago
Published: 07 Jun 2012

ISBN 10: 1844084906
ISBN 13: 9781844084906
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Media Reviews
Raw, true ... Liebenberg is a terrific writer -- Jason Wallace Guardian Compelling ... Liebenberg writes evocatively about boxing and the hope it instils in a group of boys destined for the mines -- Tamzin Baker Financial Times A moving, excellently crafted story -- Kate Saunders The Times
Author Bio
Lauren Liebenberg was born in what was Rhodesia and spent her early childhood in the crucible of the civil war. She now lives in South Africa and has an MBA from the business school of the University of Witwatersrand. She is married to an Englishman and has two young children.