Ways of Dying

Autori

• Zakes Mda
• Sheila Kohler

Serie

• 1 di 2 - Toloki

Parametri

• 224 pagine
• 8 ore di lettura

• Africa
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica
• Realismo magico
• Repubblica del Sudafrica

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2002

(In brossura)