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  • Little Suns

    by Zakes Mda ...
    It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana - 'Little Suns' - searches for his beloved Mthwakazi after many lonely years spent in Lesotho. Mthwakazi was the young woman he had fallen in love with twenty years earlier, before the assassination of Hamilton Hope ripped the two of them apart.Intertwined with Malangana's story, is the account of Hope - a colonial magistrate who, in the late nineteenth ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ways of Dying

    A Novel

    by Zakes Mda ...
    Winner of the M-Net Book PrizeShortlisted for the CNA and Noma AwardsIn Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, 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, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Madonna of Excelsior

    A Novel

    by Zakes Mda ...
    A new novel by a towering presence in contemporary South African literatureIn 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal -and of a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Heart of Redness

    by Zakes Mda ...
    A South African man returns to a divided village in pursuit of lust, redemption, and identity in this "humorous, mythic, and complicated novel" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Having left for America during apartheid, Camugu has now returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • She Plays with the Darkness

    A Novel

    by Zakes Mda ...
    In a remote mountain village in Lesotho, the beautiful Dikosha lives for dancing and for song, setting herself apart from her fellow villagers. Her twin brother, Radisene, works in the lowland capital of Maseru, struggling amid political upheaval to find a life for himself away from the hills. As the years pass, Radisene's fortunes rise and fall in the city, while Dikosha remains in the village, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures

    2000-2008

    by Njabulo S. Ndebele, Zakes Mda, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Nelson Mandela, Mamphela Ramphele, Desmond Tutu, Thabo Mbeki, Trevor Manuel ...
    Explore the enduring legacy of Stephen Bantu Biko through the insightful Steve Biko Memorial Lectures, delivered by Africa's foremost scholars, artists, and leaders.The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures: 2000–2008 is a compelling compilation of the annual lectures held by the Steve Biko Foundation since 2000. These lectures delve into the inextricable link between the individual and society, the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Rachel's Blue

    by Zakes Mda ...
    Series series The Africa List
    Novelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, casting a satirical eye on its claims of political unity, its rising black middle class, and other aspects of its complicated, multiracial society.In this novel, however, he turns his lens elsewhere: to a college town in Ohio. Here he finds human relations and the battle between the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Whale Caller

    A Novel

    by Zakes Mda ...
    "A voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --The New York TimesThe Whale Caller, Zakes Mda's fifth novel, is his most enchanting and accessible book yet-a romantic comedy of sorts in which the changing face of post-apartheid South Africa is revealed through prodigious, lyrical storytelling.As the novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus, on the country's west coast, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Black Diamond

    by Zakes Mda ...
    Series series The Africa List
    In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Roodepoort district of Johannesburg, goes on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in her town. Her reasons are personal, and her zeal is fierce. Her main targets are the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, who run a brothel, and although she fails to take down ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cion

    A Novel

    by Zakes Mda ...
    A Picador Paperback OriginalThe hero of Zakes Mda's beloved Ways of Dying, Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who were their ancestors.Toloki, the professional mourner, has come to live in America. Lured to Athens, Ohio, by an academic at the local university, Toloki makes friends with an angry young man he meets at a Halloween parade and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sometimes There Is a Void

    Memoirs of an Outsider

    by Zakes Mda ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearSouth African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda's remarkable life story of growing up in South Africa, Lesotho, and America, told with style and gusto.Zakes Mda is the most acclaimed South African writer of the independence era. His novels tell stories that venture far beyond the conventional narratives of a people's struggle against apartheid. In this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Madonna of Excelsior

    by Zakes Mda ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior, a farming community in South Africa's rural Free States, were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sexual relations between blacks and whites on the pretext of avoiding miscegenation. The women were jailed as they awaited trial and their white counterparts were released on bail. In the end, the state withdrew the charges, but the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD