WHERE MORNING COMES

Written by Arushi Raina.
13,8 × 21,6 cm, c. 235 pages, softcover.
Public aimed: 14+
Genre: Novel
Keywords: SOUTH AFRICA | SOWETO UPRISING | APARTHEID | RESILIENCE Rights sold: SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA
Rights available: EUROPE

Johannesburg, South Africa. 1976. Zannele is skipping school and secretly plotting against the apartheid government. The police can’t know. Her mother and sister can’t know.

Her best friend, Thabo, schoolboy turned gang member, can tell she’s up to something. But he has troubles og this own—a deal gone wrong and some powerful enemies.

Meena, the daughter of an Indian shopkeeper, finds a packet of banned pamphlets. They lead to a mysterious black girl with a secret, a dangerous gangster with expensive clothes, and an engaging white boy who drives a battered red car.

Across the bridge, in the wealthy suburbs, Jack plans to spend his last days in Johannesburg before leaving for university, burning miles on his beat-up Mustang—until he meets a girl with an unforgettable face from a black township on the edge of revolt—Soweto.

Finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People 2017.
Winner of the Children’s Africana Book Award 2018.

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