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Reality Check

Reality Check

by Peter Abrahams
Downloadable audio file
Publication Date: 01/01/2009

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ISBN:
9781441626523
9781441626523
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Downloadable audio file
Publication Date:
01-01-2009
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Peter Abrahams

Peter Abrahams was born in Vrededorp, near Johannesburg, in 1919. His Ethiopian father worked in the gold mines; his mother was the daughter of a black African father and white French mother, classifying Abrahams as 'coloured'. After his father's death, he had an impoverished childhood, selling firewood and working for a tinsmith, before winning a scholarship to school.

In 1939, Abrahams left South Africa for European exile, writing for the Communist Daily Worker, befriending political activists and organising the Fifth Pan-African Congress. His first book was published in 1942, followed by ten volumes of trailblazing fiction and autobiography exposing racial injustice. He settled in Jamaica in 1956 - where he lived until his death aged 97 - where he continued writing and broadcasting radio commentaries; he was married twice, both to white Englishwomen, and had three children.

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