cover image Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid

Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid

Mark Mathabane. Collier Books, $10 (303pp) ISBN 978-0-02-034530-5

The absorbing sequel to the author's Kaffir Boy , one of the best books ever written about apartheid, this tells of Mathabane's life in the U.S. since he arrived here at age 18 in 1978 on a tennis scholarship, describing his painful experiences at three colleges in one year and in American society generally. PW called it ``a wonderful, inspiring story.'' Photos. (Aug.)