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A Man Who Is Not a Man

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Thando Mgqolozana brings us a raw, revelatory and heartwarming novel about 18-year-old Lumkileā€™s journey into manhood, following a spiral of drugs, theft and failing grades.

After Lumkile is arrested for robbery, his estranged mother appears and removes him to the Eastern Cape, where he makes a fresh startā€”reinventing himself at a new school and falling in love.

When the time comes for Lumkile to enter manhood by undergoing a ritual circumcision, he prepares eagerly for the ceremonies ahead. However, in his makeshift hut on the mountain,

Lumkile realises that something has gone terribly wrong. Having been taught that ā€˜what happens at the mountain stays at the mountainā€™ he faces a stark choice: to seek medical help and risk

being forever ostracised and labelled as a ā€˜failed manā€™; or to suffer life-changing injuries or even death.

This deftly written novel is one young manā€™s intimate account of a botched circumcision, and his journey to accept his fate and embrace his future, as he gains a deeper understanding of what it

really means to be a man.


Verteller: Aaron Moloisi

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