Young Blood | General Fiction

Sifiso Mzobe

Winner of the Sunday Times LIterary Award 2011. (Read more here.)

Sipho is a “young blood”, a young man of the school-going generation caught up in a world of money, booze and greed. He lives in Umlazi, Durban – he is seventeen, has dropped out of school and helps out at his father’s mechanic shop during the day. But odd jobs underneath the bonnets of wrecked cars do not provide the lifestyle his friends have...

A fascinating look into the emotional landscape of car hijackers – by a fantastic, vibrant new voice in South African literature.