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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."
- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)
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ZIN Product Number: 10069175
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Edition: 1ST PICADO
Publisher: Picador USA
ISBN: 0312420919
Release Date: Jan 8, 2002
| |  | | | In Brief
In this novel, "Toloki, a down-and-out who hangs out by the Cape Town docks, discovers a vocation as a 'professional mourner', paid to wail and ululate at the funerals of poor township folk. . . . He slowly discovers a capcitywithin him for loving through his friendship with Nora, a childhood companion, after mourning at the funeral of her young son; and, in return, teaches her to live again." (Economist)
| | | | From The Publisher
Ways of Dying tells the story of the eccentric but dignified professional mourner, Toloki. His odyssey takes him from a rural village community to the shabby, vibrant outskirts of a contemporary South African city, where the tenderness that springs up between him and the beautiful and tragic Noria helps them to heal the past. By turns magical, brutal, and funny, this compelling work is a major new contribution to South African writing.
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| | | |  | | | The Word On The Street
Flawless, intricate, seamless read, with magic and mystery...Mda is a master storyteller. —Sindiwe Magona
An excellent novel. —Cauzens
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Fiction, Weepers (Mourners), South Africa, Blacks, African Prose In English, Fiction - General, Literary, South Africa, Blacks, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Weepers (Mourners)
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