Zakes Mda

The Heart of Redness (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A South African man returns to a divided village in pursuit of lust, redemption, and identity in this "humorous, mythic, and complicated novel" ( San Francisco Chronicle). Having left for America during apartheid, Camugu has now returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. The failed prophecy split the people in two, with devastating consequences. One hundred fifty years later, the two groups' decedents are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their future-and into a bizarre love triangle as well. "Brilliant... A new kind of novel: one that combines Gabriel García Márquez's magic realism and political astuteness with satire, social realism and a critical reexamination of the South African past." - The New York Times Book Review Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize A New York Times Notable Book

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374708214
• Artikelnr.: 39937089

Autorenporträt

Zakes Mda is a professor of creative writing at Ohio University. He has been a visiting professor at both Yale and the University of Vermont. Among his novels, The Heart of Redness (FSG, 2002) won the Richard Wright Zora Neale Hurston Legacy Award. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Athens, Ohio.