Esaurito
Serie
Parametri
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Maggiori informazioni sul libro
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.
Acquisto del libro
Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (In brossura)
Ti avviseremo via email non appena lo rintracceremo.
Metodi di pagamento
Qui potrebbe esserci la tua recensione.
- Titolo
- Ways of Dying
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Zakes Mda
- Editore
- Picador
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0312420919
- ISBN13
- 9780312420918
- Serie
- Toloki
- Tag
- Narrativa, Prosa storica, Africa, Realismo magico, Repubblica del Sudafrica, Letteratura africana
- Valutazione
- 3,9 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.