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Toloki is an eccentric and dignified professional mourner. Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying tells of his odyssey from a rural community to the vibrant outskirts of a contemporary South African city, where the beautiful and tragic Noria helps him to heal the past. By turns magical, brutal, and funny, this compelling work is a major contribution to South African writing.

Toloki is an eccentric and dignified professional mourner. Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying tells of his odyssey from a rural community to the vibrant outskirts of a contemporary South African city, where the beautiful and tragic Noria helps him to heal the past. By turns magical, brutal, and funny, this compelling work is a major contribution to South African writing.

Adult trade fiction. Students of South African literature
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