Extraordinarily moving * * Guardian * * A real find, by one of the most affecting and moving writers of our time * * Financial Times * * One of the best novels in contemporary South African fiction * * Times Literary Supplement * * In lean yet lyrical prose . . . Fugard uncannily insinuates himself into the skins of the oppressed majority and articulates its rage and misery and hope * * New York Times Book Review * * Powerful and disturbing * * Mail on Sunday * * Outstanding . . . Fugard sets his intense scenes before a palpable void . . . one is left with an impression of both fierce instinct and fine shading * * Daily Telegraph * *

Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But when he captures a woman one night in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, she shoves a shoebox into his arms: the box contains a baby and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood and rediscover the self he left behind. Tsotsi's raw power and rare humanity show how decency and compassion can survive against the odds.