# Down Second Avenue

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- Book: [Down Second Avenue](https://www.bookquiver.com/eskia-mphahlele/down-second-avenue) ([Down Second Avenue.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eskia-mphahlele/down-second-avenue.md))
- Authors: [Es’kia Mphahlele](https://www.bookquiver.com/eskia-mphahlele), [Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.bookquiver.com/ngugi-wa-thiong-o)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4310-679-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2013-07-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is...