In a remote mountain village in Lesotho, the beautiful Dikosha lives for dancing and for song, setting herself apart from her fellow villagers. Her twin brother, Radisene, works in the lowland capital of Maseru, struggling amid political upheaval to find a life for himself away from the hills. As the years pass, Radisene's fortunes rise and fall in the city, while Dikosha remains in the village, never leaving and never aging. And through it all, the community watches, comments, and passes judgment.
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Like all Mda's novels, including Heart of Redness (2002), this contemporary story of southern Africa places contemporary politics in the context of family and community, past and present. The setting here is a mountain village in Lesotho, on the South African border. Radisene is close to his beloved sister, Dikosha, until he leaves for the capital city, Maseru, where be becomes a smart ambulance-chaser, so successful in his machinations that he even sends money back to the village to build his mother a mansion. Dikosha refuses to have anything to do with him. In fact, she lives in her own world of magic and music, closely in touch with the dancers in the local cave paintings that were created by the Bushmen long before the Sotho came there and took the land. Mda's blend of magical realism and the cruel farce of national politics reveals the wildness everywhere. At the heart of the story is the mountain community, never idyllic, bursting with jealousy and spite, yet home through drought, snow, and mist. Hazel Rochman
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"Mda's fascinating narrative skill reveals the past as a powerful presence in the present: of his characters, and of all of us, as we live."--Nadine Gordimer
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Don't be fooled by the sunshine in their faces. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Trooper Motsohi, Sorry My Darlie, Congress Party, Cave of Barwa, South Africa, Black River, Range Rover, Staff Nurse Mary, National Party, Victoria Hotel, Free State, Good Fathers, Lancers Inn, Chief Samane, Bonhomme House, Joseph Radison, Old Ramoabi, Radio Lesotho, Sales House, Sea Point, Zionist Church, King Moshoeshoe the Second, Mohokare River, Police Mobile Unit, Standard Seven New!
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Don't be fooled by the sunshine in their faces. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
general dealer, lowland towns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Trooper Motsohi, Sorry My Darlie, Congress Party, Cave of Barwa, South Africa, Black River, Range Rover, Staff Nurse Mary, National Party, Victoria Hotel, Free State, Good Fathers, Lancers Inn, Chief Samane, Bonhomme House, Joseph Radison, Old Ramoabi, Radio Lesotho, Sales House, Sea Point, Zionist Church, King Moshoeshoe the Second, Mohokare River, Police Mobile Unit, Standard Seven New!
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- The Heart of Redness: A Novel by Zakes Mda in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Ways of Dying: A Novel by Zakes Mda in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel by Zakes Mda in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- We Shall Sing for the Fatherland by Zakes Mda in Front Matter
- Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism and Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature in English (Cross/Cultures 39) by Elsa Linguanti on page 229, and Back Matter
- From Jo'Burg to Jozi by Heidi Holland on page 168
- The Whale Caller: A Novel by Zakes Mda in Front Matter
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