{"product_id":"ways-of-dying-a-novel-0312420919","title":"Ways of Dying: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0312420919\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mda, Zakes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the M-Net Book PrizeShortlisted for the CNA and Noma AwardsIn Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a \"professional mourner\" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today.Ways of Dying was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534300283168,"sku":"NEW0312420919","price":10.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81QqDjpS9eL.jpg?v=1777358506","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/ways-of-dying-a-novel-0312420919","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}