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The Whale Caller

By Zakes Mda

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The Whale Caller

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As Zakes Mda's fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the whale caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous lover--oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him. The two misfits eventually fall in love. But each of them is ill equipped for romance, and their relationship suggests, in the words of The Washington Post, that "the deeper, darker concern here is not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2006-10-17
Publication Date:
2006-10-17
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
02748842160312425872
ISBN13:
9780312425876
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
347 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
15 cm

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