{"publishers": ["Penguin Books"], "series": ["Penguin classics"], "full_title": "Down Second Avenue", "lc_classifications": ["PR9369.3.M67 Z466 2013", "PR9369.3.M67Z466"], "key": "/books/OL31129591M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL500838A"}], "publish_places": ["New York, New York"], "isbn_13": ["9780143106791"], "pagination": "xiii, 236 pages", "source_records": ["marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part40.utf8:203254349:904", "bwb:9780143106791", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:837927882:1803", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_032.bib.mrc:29110630:3546"], "title": "Down Second Avenue", "lccn": ["2013006672"], "number_of_pages": 236, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "dewey_decimal_class": ["968.06092"], "subject_places": ["South Africa"], "subjects": ["South African Authors", "Biography", "Social life and customs"], "subject_people": ["Es'kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)"], "publish_country": "nyu", "publish_date": "2013", "by_statement": "Es'kia Mphahlele ; foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o", "subject_times": ["20th century"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL3149567W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["820118225"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue is a landmark book that describes Mphahlele{u2019}s experience growing up in segregated South Africa. Vivid, graceful, and unapologetic, it details a daily life of severe poverty and brutal police surveillance under the subjugation of an apartheid regime. Banned in South Africa after its original 1959 publication for its protest against apartheid, Down Second Avenue is a foundational work of literature that continues to inspire activists today.\"--Page 4 of cover."}, "covers": [15171762], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-11-13T22:30:26.732456"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-20T23:30:26.138663"}}