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The Madonna of Excelsior (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Madonna of Excelsior"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...
Full description- Publisher: Picador USA
- Published: 01 March 2005
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780312423827 ISBN 10: 0312423829
- Sales rank: 264,393
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Full description for The Madonna of Excelsior
"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.
