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Ways of Dying: A Novel

By Zakes Mda

Ways of Dying: A Novel Contemporary literature

Ways of Dying: A Novel

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
214
Release Date:
2002-08-01
Publication Date:
2002-08-01
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0312420919
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
204 g
Height:
20.3 cm
Width:
12.7 cm
Thickness:
1.2 cm
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