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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.
Summary
It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana - ‘Little Suns’ - searches for his beloved Mthwakazi after many lonely years spent in Lesotho. Mthwakazi was the young woman he had fallen in love with twenty years earlier, before the assassination of Hamilton Hope ripped the two of them apart.
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 u…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781909762770 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1909762776 |
| Series: | Jacaranda |
| Author: | Zakes Mda |
| Publisher: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Imprint: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 268 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter, composer and film maker. He commutes between South Africa and the U.S., working as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, a patron of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
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