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The heart of redness / Zakes Mda.
LIBRA - Special PR9369.3.M4 H43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mda, Zakes.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Xhosa (African people).
- Xhosa (African people)--Fiction.
- South Africa--Fiction.
- South Africa.
- Villages--Fiction.
- Villages.
- Casinos--Fiction.
- Casinos.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Satire.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, 2003.
- Summary:
- Zakes Mda sets a story of South African village life against a notorious episode from the countryUs past, the result is a novel of scope and deep human feeling, of passion and reconciliation. As the novel opens Camugu, who left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg only to be disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy.
- Notes:
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Fiction , Winner, 2003
- ISBN:
- 0374528349
- 9780374528348
- OCLC:
- 52825981
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