Ways of Dying
of Zakes Mda
Series: Toloki #1
Description
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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224 pages
- Publisher Picador
- Publication Date August 1st 2002
- First Publication 11/06/95
- Language English
- ISBN 9780312420918
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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