The novel shows how the post-apartheid space continues to be exploitative towards its most vulnerable assets, its children.ĭuiker’s concerns about the African child are also explored in The Hidden Star, where 11-year-old Nolitye lives in a township with a single mother who struggles to provide for her.Ī dominant theme in Duiker’s oeuvre is sexuality and this is dealt with in great detail in The Quiet Violence of Dreams. That means I know where to find food that hasn’t seen too many ants and flies in Camps Bay or Clifton.”Īzure finds himself on the streets after both his parents are brutally murdered.īecause of this vulnerable position, he is repeatedly exploited by gangsters and by the old white men to whom he sells his body. But I’m almost a man, I’m nearly 13 years old. Its protagonist, Azure, is a homeless boy: “I live alone. These themes of subjugation, dispossession and trauma are also explored in Duiker’s first novel, Thirteen Cents.
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