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Ways of Dying - Paperback

by Zakes Mda
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Availability:In StockContributor:Zakes MdaPublish date:2002-08-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312420918ISBN-10:312420919UPC:9780312420918Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AfricaSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC62K3FKGZ

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312420918ISBN-10:312420919UPC:9780312420918Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AfricaSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC62K3FKGZ

Zakes Mda, novelist and playwright, 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 writer-in-residence at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg. His most recent novel, The Heart of Redness, was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize.

Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL

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