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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Fiction Books | | | Author: | Zakes Mda | | Format: | Softcover | | | Publisher: | Picador USA | | Edition Description: | Reprint | | | ISBN-10: | 0312423829 | | Category: | Literature, Modern | | | ISBN-13: | 9780312423827 | | Sub-Category: | -- | | | Publication Year: | 2005 | | Condition: | New | | | Special Attributes: | 1st Edition | | | | | | |
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| Synopsis | Zakes Mda, a prize-winning South African writer, takes as the basis for this novel an apartheid-era law, the Immorality Act, that made interracial sex illegal, and a 1971 trial. The story revolves around Niki, who defies the law, and those who are affected by her actions, over a 30-year period in which, while much changes, much also remains the same.
| | Size | | Length: | 258 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in. | | Width: | 5.5 in. | | Thickness: | 0.2 in. | | Weight: | 8.8 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | A new novel by one of South Africa's most talented authors takes readers deep into the heart of apartheid in the early 1970s, focusing on a mixed race family that is trying to survive on the closely regulated line between black and white.
| | Industry reviews | "A gorgeously colored picture of personal and cultural metamorphosis. Exhilarating stuff."
Kirkus (01/01/2004)
"THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR is a book of huge emotions....Like his other novels, it paints a winning and irresistible picture of Zakes Mda. But here, the voice that emerges 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 or frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us. THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR suggests, in short, that his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration."
New York Times Book Review - Neil Gordon (03/28/2004)
Reading "The Madonna of Excelsior" is so enjoyable, so captivating, that by the time you've finished the book (in not much time at all, probably), you'll be shocked to realize you've actually learned a great deal....Mda selects a small, singular event from the extensive legacy of apartheid...and with it, he opens a door onto the subtle paradoxes of race, human relations and human existence. By the end of his book, you'll understand not only a great deal more about the past and present of South Africa, but also about people in general, and the intricate emotional forces that shape who we are."
Salon - Chris Farah (04/15/2004)
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