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Shortlisted for The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation
Recently made into an award-winning film, Themba (meaning hope) tells the story of a young South African boy who realizes his dream of playing for the national soccer team but must come to terms with AIDS that has infected both his mother and himself.
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Lutz van Dijk is a prize-winning author.Among other books he has written a novel for young people, Stronger than the Storm, and The History of Africa, with a preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His books have been published in several languages including Chinese and IsiXhosa. Themba has been made into a movie which won a Unicef award in 2010.
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'...this is a story of overwhelming hope, as well as overcoming prejudices. It's a rags to riches story - a story of hope, of dreaming your dreams and achieving them, and it's also, a story of friendship...' The Sunday Independent 'Themba: A Boy Called Hope is an inspirational coming-of-age drama about a young South African boy's escape from poverty and the pursuit of a dream... While football forms the backdrop to this emotional journey, it's simply a theme and a driving force for our title character. There are soccer matches, but Themba: A Boy Called Hope is more about the triumph of the human spirit against social, economic and familial adversity.' Spling online "THEMBA reminds me of my own childhood and youth in a township close to a small village in the Transvaal in South Africa: Like him I wanted to escape poverty, like him I had the hope that our world will be a just world one day - and like him I loved my mother who was working at the time as a maid for a white family. To be very honest: in soccer Themba seems to be simply better than I was." Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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- PublisherAurora Metro Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1906582211
- ISBN 13 9781906582210
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