Ways of dying
About this book
Ways of Dying is a 1995 novel by South African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda. The text follows the wanderings and creative endeavors of Toloki, a self-employed professional mourner, as he traverses an unnamed South African city during the nation's transitional period.
Subjects
- black people
- blacks
- blacks, fiction
- death
- fiction
- fiction, psychological
- funeral rites and ceremonies
- grief
- man-woman relationships
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- new york times reviewed
- south africa, fiction
- weepers (mourners)