The Madonna of Excelsior
Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
- ISBN13 9780312423827
- ISBN10 0312423829
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 288
- Any Edició 2005
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
Matèries
Literatura AnglesaThe Madonna of Excelsior
Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
"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.