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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.
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Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
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- Titel
- Ways of Dying
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Zakes Mda
- Uitgever
- Picador
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0312420919
- ISBN13
- 9780312420918
- Reeks
- Toloki
- Tags
- Fictie, Historische romans, Afrika, Magisch realisme, Republiek Zuid-Afrika, Afrikaanse Literatuur
- Beoordeling
- 3,9 van 5
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- 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.