A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests t just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one should feel t only affection but admiration. --Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review Selection, Summer Reading, New York Times Book Review In 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 one irrepressible fallen madonna, Niki, and her family, at the heart of the scandal.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
ST Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312423829
ISBN-13
9780312423827
eBay Product ID (ePID)
182937755
Product Key Features
Author
Visiting Professor at the School of Dramatic Art Zakes Mda, Mda Zakes
Zakes Mda has received every major South African prize for his work. Born in 1948, he has been a visiting professor at Yale and the University of Vermont. He is now a dramaturg at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and a Professor in the Creative Writing Department at Ohio University.
Country of Publication
United States
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