Ways of Dying, Paperback/Zakes Mda

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Winner of the M-Net Book Prize Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In Ways of Dying , Zakes Mdas 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 citys 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 Africas prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africas 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.

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90.39 ^RON

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