Ways of dying

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Title:

Ways of dying

Author:

Mda, Zakes.

ISBN:

9780195711066

9780195714982

Personal Author:

Mda, Zakes.

Publication Information:

Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Physical Description:

199 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

Southern African fiction writing

Southern African fiction writing.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction.

Weepers (Mourners) -- Fiction.

Blacks -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Fiction.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/95230909-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/95230909-d.html

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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.