The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda

ISBN: 9780195714777 / 0195714776 - The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda. Published by Oxford University Press, 2004. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 320 pp.

Having left for America during apartheid, Camugu has now returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. The failed prophecy split the people in two, with devastating consequences.

One hundred fifty years later, the two groups' decedents are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their future - and into a bizarre love triangle as well.

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