Twenty-second Street, the street where we lived, was strang… - Peter Abrahams

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Twenty-second Street, the street where we lived, was strange and alien. The noise was frightening after the quiet of Elsburg.

Peter Abrahams

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Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life.

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Birth Name: Peter Henry Abrahams Deras

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All the years of his life had been spent walking through the land; from east to west, then back; from north to south, then back.

A strange group of people, these, he thought. Nothing tied them down. They seem to believe in nothing. But well, they had given him a bed. She had given it to him. She who was the strangest of them all.

The concerts and theatres, the libraries and the parks, the bookshops and the clean, fresh looking tearooms, the buses and departmental stores.

Twenty-second Street, the street where we lived, was strange and alien. The noise was frightening after the quiet of Elsburg. - Peter Abrahams

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