The Heart of Redness |
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Author:
| Mda, Zakes |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-571477-7 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2000 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, South Africa
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $42.68AUD $46.95 |
Book Description:
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An important, poignant and witty contribution to South African and world fiction, by an award-winning novelist. Rooted in real history and the present, the story moves between the time of a nineteenth-century Xhosa girl-prophet who provoked her nation's catastrophic destruction of cattle and corn with the promise that the ancestors would return with new stock, and drive the white colonists into the sea, and a contemporary village where vividly true-to-lifecharacters show how powerful...
More DescriptionAn important, poignant and witty contribution to South African and world fiction, by an award-winning novelist. Rooted in real history and the present, the story moves between the time of a nineteenth-century Xhosa girl-prophet who provoked her nation's catastrophic destruction of cattle and corn with the promise that the ancestors would return with new stock, and drive the white colonists into the sea, and a contemporary village where vividly true-to-lifecharacters show how powerful the tensions between past and present can be.