About: Thirteen Cents

An Entity of Type: book, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

Thirteen Cents is the debut novel of South African author K. Sello Duiker. It was published in 2000 to critical acclaim and immediate success in South Africa and abroad, winning the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa. The first edition of Thirteen Cents outside South Africa was published by Ohio University Press in 2013 as part of the Modern African Writing series with an introduction by Professor Shaun Viljoen.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Thirteen Cents is the debut novel of South African author K. Sello Duiker. It was published in 2000 to critical acclaim and immediate success in South Africa and abroad, winning the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa. The first edition of Thirteen Cents outside South Africa was published by Ohio University Press in 2013 as part of the Modern African Writing series with an introduction by Professor Shaun Viljoen. The novel is set in post-apartheid South Africa and depicts the brutal reality of South African street children. As a crime novel and bildungsroman, it follows the twelve-year-old orphan Azure and his efforts to survive on the streets of Cape Town amidst an underworld of gangsters, drug use, violence, and prostitution. The novel addresses serious themes including sexual exploitation, corruption, and drug use. As a social-political novel, it critiques the ongoing social injustice in post-apartheid South Africa. (en)
dbo:author
dbo:country
dbo:isbn
  • 978-0-8214-2036-2
dbo:language
dbo:literaryGenre
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 55180384 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 25433 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1048871935 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:author
dbp:country
dbp:excludeCover
  • yes (en)
dbp:genre
dbp:isbn
  • 978 (xsd:integer)
dbp:language
  • English (en)
dbp:name
  • Thirteen Cents (en)
dbp:published
  • 2000 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Thirteen Cents is the debut novel of South African author K. Sello Duiker. It was published in 2000 to critical acclaim and immediate success in South Africa and abroad, winning the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa. The first edition of Thirteen Cents outside South Africa was published by Ohio University Press in 2013 as part of the Modern African Writing series with an introduction by Professor Shaun Viljoen. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Thirteen Cents (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Thirteen Cents (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License