His first novel Thirteen Cents won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for best first book, Africa region. The Hidden Star is Duiker’s third novel and it was published posthumously. But soon Nolitye finds out that the purplish-blue magic stone is but five stones needed to put right things that started to go wrong the day her father died in a mining accident when she was five years old. Along with her two friend – the somewhat pampered Bheki, and Four Eyes, a reformed member of the Spoilers gang led by Rotten Nellie – Nolitye puts the powers of the stone to good use: for the first time the threesome can stand up to the Spoilers Nolitye can save the life of Rex, the leader of a pack of talking township mutts and dare to look scary MaMtonga with her living brown-and-green snake necklace in the eye. When Nolitye finds a magical stone on the dusty streets of Phola, her granny’s words take on a new meaning. Eleven-year-old Nolitye’s granny used to say: if you mess with a woman, you mess with a stone.
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