Ways of Dying: A Novel Creative Editions murderous encounters with Pacific islanders

murderous encounters with Pacific islanders

and social conditions

During the turbulent days of the Civil Rights era

As a British expatriate living in France

Ways of Dying: A Novel Creative Editions murderous encounters with Pacific islandersWinner of the M Net Book Prize Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In 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, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas