Time of the Butcherbird

Name: Time of the Butcherbird
Author: Alex La Guma

About the author

South 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 Guma

A Walk in the NightNovella about a young man's tragic night in segregated Cape Town streets
In the Fog of the Seasons' EndNovel following activists resisting apartheid oppression and state violence
The Stone CountryPrison novel portraying brutal conditions and human resilience under apartheid