{"title":"Zakes Mda","description":"\u003cp\u003eShop books by \u003cstrong\u003eZakes Mda\u003c\/strong\u003e at Readers Warehouse. Bestsellers in our range include \u003cem\u003eWayfarers' Hymns\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJustify the Enemy Becoming Human in South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLittle Suns\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for adult readers. Shop all our Zakes Mda books below, delivered across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781415210154","title":"The Zulus of New York","description":"The Great Farini would stride on to the stage and announce,\"'Ladies and gentlemen, and now for the highlight of the day, the ferocious Zulus.\" The impresario Farini introduced Em-Pee and his troupe to his kind of show business, and now they must earn their bread. In 1885 in bustling New York City, they are the performers who know the true Zulu dances, while all around them fraudsters perform silly jigs. Reports on the Anglo-Zulu War portrayed King Cetshwayo as infamous, and audiences in London and New York flock to see his kin. What the gawking spectators don't know is that Em-Pee once carried nothing but his spear and shield, when he had to flee his king. But amid the city's squalid vaudeville acts appears a vision that leaves Em-Pee breathless: in a cage in Madison Square Park is Acol, a Dinka princess on display. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"READERS WAREHOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32040200667251,"sku":"9780312420918","price":179.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/ways-of-dying-zakes-mda-15209373794419.jpg?v=1638301333"},{"product_id":"9781869143800","title":"Justify the Enemy Becoming Human in South Africa","description":"This book is a collection of non-fiction by the prolific author Zakes Mda. It showcases his role as a public intellectual with the inclusion of public lectures, essays and media articles. Mda focuses on South Africa's history and the present, identity and belonging, the art of writing, human rights, global warming and why he is unable to keep silent on abuses of power. Some of his best-known novels include Ways of Dying (1995, MNet Book Prize); The Heart of Redness (2000, Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Africa, and Sunday Times Fiction Prize); The Madonna of Excelsior (2002, one of the Top Ten South African books published in the Decade of Democracy); The Whale Caller (2005); Cion (2007); Black Diamond (2009); The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013); Rachel's Blue (2014); and Little Suns (2015, Sunday Times Literary Award). Zakes Mda was born in Herschel in the Eastern Cape in 1948 and studied in South Africa, Lesotho and the United States. He wrote his first short story at the age of fifteen and has since won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays. His writing has been translated into twenty languages. Mda is a professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University. 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Intertwined with Malangana's story is the account of Hope -- a colonial magistrate who, in the late nineteenth century, was undermining the local kingdoms of the eastern Cape in order to bring them under the control of the British. It was he who wanted to coerce Malangana's king and his people, the amaMpondomise, into joining his battle -- a scheme Malangana's conscience could not allow. Zakes Mda's novel weaves the true events surrounding the death of Magistrate Hope into a touching story of love and perseverance that can transcend exile and strife.\" -- jacket flap.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357850124403,"sku":"9781415209714","price":304.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/little-suns-mda-zakes-28231206731891.jpg?v=1637640360"},{"product_id":"9781868143894","title":"Nothing but the Truth A play","description":"An award-winning play about the relationship between brothers.\n\nNothing but the Truth is the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, and the ambiguities of freedom. The play was John Kani's debut as sole playwright and was first performed in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. It won the 2003 Fleur du Cap Award for best actor and best new South African play. 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Taboos, superstition, customs and moral ethics become the subjects of inquiry and are, at times, subjected to ribald satire. This play cuts into a virtuoso style of theatre that can in no way be confused with the objectives and methods of conventional realism. Mda establishes a unique style and tone that is innovative, entertaining and challenging. It fuses satirical elements derived from classical poetry with a modernist sensibility that synthesises Brechtian and Absurdist features of theatricality, using characters as types and montage. Above all, in this work there is a profound exploration of what it means to operate in the politically charged landscape that defines post-apartheid South Africa with its cultural pluralities and differentials in access to resources and agency. Stylistically adventurous and unafraid to deviate from conventionally accepted norms, Mda is iconoclastic in his handling of the ways in which attitudes to power, superstition, ethics and sex are constructed. The cultural discourse of patriarchy and the 'regime of truths' regarding ideals and taboos defining female sexuality, its obligations, and its custodianship are the focus of this play.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357991518323,"sku":"9781868145676","price":238.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/our-lady-of-benoni-zakes-mda-28231496335475.jpg?v=1637788326"},{"product_id":"9781415210826","title":"Wayfarers' Hymns","description":"Infused with rhythm and melody, Zakes Mda’s new novel invites you to travel from Lesotho’s Mountain Kingdom to the City of Gold through the history of famo. Famo music was born in the drinking dens of migrant mineworkers in Lesotho, where the men would sing to unwind after work, accompanied by the accordion, a drum and sometimes a bass.\n\nMeet the boy-child Kheleke, a wandering musician, and his surprising sister Moliehi. Then sigh with pleasure at being reunited with Toloki, the professional mourner from Ways of Dying, and his beloved Noria. Passionate and ambitious, Kheleke is a weaver of songs, and his own story is intertwined with the incredible yet true social history of the music: the Time of the Concertina and the Accordion, the wars of the famo gangs, and the battle for control of illegal mines. The end is always a journey – and what a journey this is!","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39887619817587,"sku":"9781415210826","price":304.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/wayfarers-hymns-zakes-mda-28562995642483.jpg?v=1638301318"},{"product_id":"9780143026860","title":"Black Diamond","description":"\u003cp\u003eKristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. 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