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The Madonna of Excelsior

The Madonna of Excelsior - Paperback

by Zakes Mda, Mda Zakes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Zakes Mda, Mda ZakesPublish date:2005-03-01Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312423827ISBN-10:312423829UPC:9780312423827Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, Family LifeSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPSCCVGMY

"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review

Selection, Summer Reading, New York Times Book Review

In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of one irrepressible fallen madonna, Niki, and her family, at the heart of the scandal.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312423827ISBN-10:312423829UPC:9780312423827Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, Family LifeSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPSCCVGMY

Zakes Mda has received every major South African prize for his work. Born in 1948, he has been a visiting professor at Yale and the University of Vermont. He is now a dramaturg at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and a Professor in the Creative Writing Department at Ohio University.


Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL

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