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| The Heart of Redness |
Nominated ISBN: 0195714776 |
Find out more about the author on the following websites: Review
of The Heart of Redness with brief author biography
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| Zakes Mda | ||
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| Cape Town City Libraries, Cape Town, South Africa |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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'The
Strangers said I must tell the nation that all cattle now living must
be slaughtered…The fields must not be cultivated…When the time
is ripe the whole community of the dead will arise, and new cattle will
fill the kraals.'
In the mid-nineteenth century, in the Eastern Cape village of Qolorha, a young girl called Nongqawuse brought this message from the ancestors to the amaXhosa people. The prophecy split the nation into Believers and Unbelievers, dividing brother from brother, wife from husband, and the consequences were devastating. One hundred and fifty years later, the feud between the Believers and Unbelievers still simmers in Qolorha, as the villagers take opposing sides on every issue. When plans are mooted to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village, they once again battle over their future, and face the loss of their heritage. The Heart of Redness is a seamless weave of fascinating history, powerful myth and a faithful depiction of people and place, moving between the worlds of contemporary characters and their nineteenth-century ancestors. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Zanemvula
Kizito Gatyeni Mda,
better known as Zakes Mda, is an award-winning playwright, novelist,
painter and academic. Born in Herschel, South Africa in 1948, he has studied
and worked in South Africa, Lesotho, the United Kingdom and the United
States. He now lives in South Africa and devotes his time to writing.
He has published a volume of poetry, several anthologies of plays, and
the novels Ways of Dying, winner of the M-Net Book Prize
in 1997, and She Plays With the Darkness. The Heart
of Redness is his third adult novel.
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