Zakes Mda, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-52834-8
In Mda's richly suggestive novel, a Westernized African, Camagu, becomes embroiled in a village dispute that has its roots in the 19th century. The war between the amaXhosa and the British in South Africa (known to Westerners as the Zulu Wars)...
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Zakes Mda, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (258p) ISBN 978-0-374-20008-4
In vibrant prose infused with equal parts satire and social criticism, Mda (The Heart of Redness
) charts new emotional terrain exploring the Madonna-whore complex in a South African setting. Readers catch their first glimpse of protagonist Niki in...
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Zakes Mda, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (230p) ISBN 978-0-374-28785-6
In this follow-up to last year's excellent The Madonna of Excelsior
, the title character, in leading an off-shore "dance" with a whale named Sharisha by blowing a kelp horn, spills his seed in his trousers. Things pretty much go...
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Zakes Mda, Author . Picador $14 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-42706-1
In this exuberant follow-up to Ways of Dying
, the celebrated South African novelist and playwright Mda once again centers his story upon the professional mourner Toloki—this time, as he makes his way through a sad and surreal America. Set on...
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Zakes Mda, Author Picador USA $14 (216p) ISBN 978-0-312-42091-8
Novelist and playwright Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying was a big hit in his native South Africa, where it was even adapted into a jazz opera. Toloki is a Professional Mourner, making a meager living by attending funerals in the violent city where he...
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Zakes Mda. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-28094-9
It is easy to become immersed in this memoir by the acclaimed and peripatetic South African playwright involved with the Market Theatre, a novelist, poet, visual artist, and musician who today is an academic at the University of Ohio. Throughout...
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