{"product_id":"ways-of-dying","title":"Ways of Dying","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWays of Dying\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eZakes Mda\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780312420918\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the M-Net Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWays of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWays of Dying \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Ways of Dying | Zakes Mda | Paperback | 9780312420918 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1670852","offer_id":50789443404034,"sku":"1670852","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81QqDjpS9eL.jpg?v=1792304128","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/ways-of-dying","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}