← Alex La GumaA Walk in the Nightby Alex La GumaNovella about a young man's tragic night in segregated Cape Town streetsFind on Amazon↗About the authorAlex La GumaSouth African novelist and Communist Party member whose stark, precisely observed fiction about the Cape Coloured community under apartheid produced some of the finest protest fiction of the 20th century.More by Alex La GumaIn the Fog of the Seasons' EndNovel following activists resisting apartheid oppression and state violence→Time of the Butcherbird→The Stone CountryPrison novel portraying brutal conditions and human resilience under apartheid→