£7.99
ISBN 9781906582210
192 pages pbk




THEMBA - A BOY CALLED HOPE

by Lutz van Dijk


Themba grows up dreaming of becoming a football star. One day he leaves the village and travels with his sister to the city in search of their mother. Life is a struggle and Themba has to grow up fast.

A lucky break gives him the chance to train as a footballer and play professionally - but Themba has a secret - should he tell the truth and risk everything he's ever dreamed of?

'READ OF THE MONTH' - PRIDE magazine


'...an inspirational coming of age drama about a young South African boy's escape from poverty and the pusuit of a dream.' - Spling onliner

'It's a rags to riches story - a story of hope, of dreaming your dreams and achieving them, and it's also a story of friendship...' -The Sunday Independent

'Themba reminds me of my own childhood and youth in a township close to a small village in the Transvaal in South Africa: Like him I wanted to escape poverty, like him I had the hope that our world will be a just world one day - and like him I loved my mother who was working at the time as a maid for a white family. To be very honest: in soccer Themba seems to be simply better than I was.' - Archbishop Desmond Tutu