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Ways of Dying 1st edition
Zakes Mda
Ways of Dying 1st edition
Zakes Mda
Winner of the M-Net Book Prize
Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today.
Ways of Dying was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 1 de agosto de 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780312420918 |
Editoras | MACMILLAN USA |
Páginas | 224 |
Dimensões | 137 × 208 × 23 mm · 204 g |
Idioma | English |
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