Ways of Dying: A Novel

@book{citeulike:1874242, abstract = {{<div><b>Winner of the M-Net Book Prize</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards </b><br><br>In <i>Ways of Dying</i>, 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 day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today.<br><br><i>Ways of Dying </i>was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.<br></div>}}, author = {Mda, Zakes }, citeulike-article-id = {1874242}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0312420919}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2007-11-06 14:53:26}, priority = {5}, publisher = {Picador}, title = {Ways of Dying: A Novel}, url = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21\&amp;path=ASIN/0312420919}, year = {2002} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1874242 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1874242 TI - Ways of Dying: A Novel PB - Picador SN - 0312420919 N2 - {<div><b>Winner of the M-Net Book Prize</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards </b><br><br>In <i>Ways of Dying</i>, 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 day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today.<br><br><i>Ways of Dying </i>was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.<br></div>} AU - Mda, Zakes PY - 2002/08/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&amp;path=ASIN/0312420919 ER -