The Madonna of Excelsior
Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Festland Spanien
- Verlag PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
- ISBN13 9780312423827
- ISBN10 0312423829
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 288
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2005
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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English LiteraturThe Madonna of Excelsior
Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] 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 and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --Neil Gordon, "New York Times Book Review" Selection, Summer Reading, "New York Times Book Review" In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of one irrepressible fallen madonna, Niki, and her family, at the heart of the scandal.