Thirteen Cents Author:K Sello Duiker Azure is twelve years old. An orphan, he llives on the streets of Cape Town, surviving as best he can between the gangsters, pimps and drug dealers, selling the only thing he can ~ himself.
A dark look at Cape Town, South Africa, from the view of a street kid trying to survive. The author, a South African, won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Thirteen Cents, Best First Book, in 2001.