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Ways of Dying A Novel

Paperback • 2002 • English

Ways of Dying A Novel

By Zakes Mda

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About the book

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 reun...Show more

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ISBN

9780312420918

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

Ways of Dying A Novel

Format

Paperback

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