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A fictionalized account of a troupe of Zulu men taken to New York as performing curiosities at the end of the nineteenth century

Zakes Mda's fine novel Little Suns weaves the true events surrounding the death of Magistrate Hope into a touching story of love and perseverance that can transcend exile and strife.

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In the timeless kingdom of Mapungubwe, the royal sculptor had two sons, Chata and Rendani. As they grew, so grew their rivalry--and their extraordinary talents. But while Rendani became a master carver of the animals that run in the wild hills and lush valleys of the land, Chata learned to carve fantastic beings from his dreams, creatures never before seen on the Earth. From this natural rivalry between brothers, Zakes Mda crafts an irresistib...

A collection of non-fiction by the prolific author Zakes Mda which focus 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.

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An innovative play tackling the role of patriarchy in South African cultureZakes Mda's satire is a kaleidoscopic display of the extremes to which men (and by implication women) are prepared to go in terms of valuing what is 'virginal'. Mda presents us with the consequences of transgression: that which is seen as polluted and judged to be dangerous to the good health and purity of a group, a society, a culture. Taboos, superstition, customs and...

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Moving, funny... Here is a man looking back on his life and country with joy and sorrow."-John Freeman, The Boston GlobeSouth African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda's remarkable life story of growing up in South Africa, Lesotho, and America, told with style and gusto.The most acclaimed South African writer of his generation, Zakes Mda's novels venture far beyond the conventional narratives of a peo...

Hermanus an der südafrikanischen Küste ist die Welthauptstadt der Wale. Jedes Jahr strömen Scharen von Touristen in die kleine Stadt, um die Glattwale zu beobachten, die die Wintermonate in der warmen Bucht verbringen. Der Walrufer will mit dem ganzen Rummel und der Geschäftemacherei des neuen Südafrikas nichts zu tun haben. Er lebt als Eigenbrötler abseits in einer Hütte, und wenn er eine gewisse Melodie auf seinem Horn anstimmt, kann er die ...

Im Herzen der südafrikanischen Provinz Free State liegt das Burenstädtchen Excelsior. Strenge Rassentrennungsgesetze sichern die Vorherrschaft der weißen Minderheit. Kein Gesetz kann jedoch verhindern, dass einige Honoratioren die Lust am Verbotenen packt: Heimlich treffen sich der Bürgermeister, der Pfarrer, der Metzger, der Polizist mit jungen schwarzen Frauen in einer Scheune. Als die Frauen eine nach der anderen ein hellhäutiges Kind zur W...

Ways of Dying, " one of the first novels to be published after South Africa's black majority won democratic rule in 1994, is already recognized as a comic, touching, and profound novel of love and strife about Toloki, a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa.

The hero of Mdas "Ways of Dying, " Toloki, settles down with a family in middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who had been their ancestors. Their stories alternate with Tolokis, and the two narratives cast new light on an undiscovered legacy of the Underground Railroad.

Features Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Roodepoort district of Johannesburg. In this novel, she goes on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in her town. Her reasons are personal, and her main targets are the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, who run a brothel.

A romantic comedy of sorts--in which the changing face of post-apartheid South Africa is revealed through prodigious, lyrical storytelling--this novel follows two misfits who fall in love in a country where just living from one day to the next can be challenge enough.

Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa's leading writes. 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. You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda's work, that gove...

A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...(that) suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --Neil Gordon, "New York Times Book Review" Selection, Summer Reading, "New York Times Book Review" I...

Jason stops to listen to yet another busker . . . He concludes that it is not for her voice--rather airy and desperate--that her open guitar case is bristling with greenbacks. It is for her strawberry blonde bangs peeping out from under her hat, and her deep blue eyes, and her willowy stature . . . and her bare feet with tan lines drawn by sandals . . . She is trying hard to make her voice sound full-bodied and round, but she was not born for ...