Ways of dying : a novel
Mda Zakes
Bok · Engelsk · 2002
| Utgitt | New York : Picador , 2002
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| Omfang | 212 s.
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| Opplysninger | 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.
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| ISBN | 978-0-312-42091-8 : Nkr 194 .00
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| Hylleplass | engelsk M
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