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Hardcover:
9780857423320 | Seagull Books, March 15, 2016, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: 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.
Paperback:
9780795706813 | Gardners Books, December 1, 2014, cover price $18.55 | About this edition: 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.
Hardcover:
9780857422224 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 2014, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: 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.
Hardcover:
9780857420954 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 2013), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In the timeless kingdom of Mapungubwe, the royal sculptor had two sons, Chata and Rendani.
Hardcover:
9780374280949 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 3, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Zakes Mda is the most acclaimed South African writer of the independence era.
Paperback:
9781250023988 | Picador USA, January 8, 2013, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Moving, funny.
Hardcover:
9780126616200, titled "The Atypical Stutterer: Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation" | Academic Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $50.00 | also contains The Atypical Stutterer: Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation
Paperback:
9780312427061 | Picador USA, August 21, 2007, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In the sequel to Ways of Dying, Toloki, the professional mourner, comes to America and settles down in Athens, Ohio, where he meets an angry young man, falls in love with the man's sister, and becomes involved with a local quilting group, which provides a gateway to the past and the story of two escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio.
A novel takes readers deep into the heart of apartheid in the early 1970s, focusing on a mixed race family that is trying to survive on the closely regulated line between black and white.
Hardcover:
9780374200084 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A novel takes readers deep into the heart of apartheid in the early 1970s, focusing on a mixed race family that is trying to survive on the closely regulated line between black and white.
Paperback:
9780312423827 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 30, 2005), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A new novel by one of South Africa's most talented authors takes readers deep into the heart of apartheid in the early 1970s, focusing on a mixed race family that is trying to survive on the closely regulated line between black and white.
Miscellaneous:
9780374708238 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 15, 2007), cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9780374528348, titled "Heart of Redness" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the 'new' South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid regime--to find his newly democratic country in a shambles.
Paperback:
9780312421748 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, August 1, 2003), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the 'new' South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid regime--to find his newly democratic country in a shambles.
9780195714777 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Zakes Mda is a well-known, award-winning South African author.
Miscellaneous:
9780374708214 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 15, 2007), cover price $9.99
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.
Paperback:
9780195711066 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: 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.
Miscellaneous:
9780374708283 | 1 edition (Picador USA, May 15, 2007), cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9780374287856 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 13, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Charts a tender, funny romance between the 'Whale Caller' of a small South African coastal village and the town drunk, Saluni.
Paperback:
9780312425876 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, October 17, 2006), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author's fifth novel charts a tender, funny romance between the 'Whale Caller' in the small South African coastal town of Hermanus and the town drunk, Saluni.
In a remote mountain village of Lesotho, beautiful Dikosha lives for her dancing and for song, separating herself from her fellow villagers, never leaving and never aging, while in the lowland capital of Maseru, her twin brother, Radisene, struggles to build a life for himself away from his village home. Original. 15,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780865436800 | Africa World Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $29.95
Paperback:
9780312423254 | Picador USA, March 1, 2004, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In a remote mountain village of Lesotho, Dikosha lives for her dancing and for song, separating herself from her fellow villagers, never leaving and never aging, while in the lowland capital of Maseru, her twin brother, Radisene, struggles to build a life for himself away from his village home.
9780865436817 | Africa World Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $12.95
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9781868143771 | Witwatersrand Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection: The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance.
Paperback:
9781868143894 | Witwatersrand Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Nothing but the Truth is the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, and the ambiguities of freedom.
Paperback:
9780312420918 | 1 edition (Picador USA, August 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A professional mourner, Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village, at the funeral of a young boy, and joins forces with her to heal the pain of the past and build new lives for themselves in post-apartheid South Africa.
Hardcover:
9780865436824 | Africa World Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
Paperback:
9780865436831 | Africa World Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9781856491990 | Zed Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: There is a growing sense that existing media have failed to serve the purposes of development, and in particular have not reflected either the concerns or the needs of the rural majority in Third World countries.
Paperback:
9781856492003 | Zed Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: There is a growing sense that existing media have failed to serve the purposes of development, and in particular have not reflected either the concerns or the needs of the rural majority in Third World countries.
Paperback:
9780869753897 | Ravan Pr of South Africa, January 1, 1991, cover price $24.95
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