Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda

ISBN: 9780195714982 / 0195714989 - Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda. Published by Oxford University Press, 1997. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 212 pp.

Written in the style of "magic realism," this tragic-comic contemporary novel is set against the backdrops of shabby but vibrant city slums and a rural South African community. The story's hero, Toloki, is an eccentric yet dignified professional mourner whose different worlds are reconciled, amid an atmosphere charged with bizarre realism, when he finds love and makes peace with his past.

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