Busani-Dube, Dudu <br/><br/>
Mess 
by Dudu Busani- Dube 
 - Pretoria;  HlomuPublishing;  2020. 
 - 343 pages  20 cm 
 - The Hlomo series  5 .
<br/><br/> One of the few guys with no tattoos has been staring at my sneakers for too long and I know he’s trying to figure me out. I have four tattoos, and they are all on my arms. Maybe that will work in my favour, at least they show I can stand pain.<br/>I will stand here, in the corner, for the whole night if I have to. I have slept under bridges, I have killed men with their eyes looking into mine. I am Nomafu’s son.<br/><br/>A cold hand over my mouth and a tight grip pulling my arms back are nothing compared to the knife going repeatedly into my thighs.<br/><br/>They aren’t trying to kill me, that I know for sure, because otherwise he would have gouged that knife into my heart by now. The stabs in my thighs are continuous but not deep. I can feel them. It’s my blood they want to see, not my dead body lying on the floor. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780620899802 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>EF BUSA