Cion (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Cion The hero of Mdas "Ways of Dying," Toloki, settles down with a family in middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who had been their ancestors. Their stories alternate with Tolokis, and the two narratives cast new light on an undiscovered legacy of the Underground Railroad.
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 21 August 2007
- Format: Paperback 312 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780312427061 ISBN 10: 0312427069
- Sales rank: 689,759
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Full description for Cion
A Picador Paperback Original The hero of Zakes Mda's beloved "Ways of Dying, " Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who were their ancestors. Toloki, the professional mourner, has come to live in America. Lured to Athens, Ohio, by an academic at the local university, Toloki makes friends with an angry young man he meets at a Halloween parade and soon falls in love with the young man's sister. Toloki endears himself to a local quilting group and his quilting provides a portal to the past, a story of two escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio. Making their way north from Virginia with nothing but their mother's quilts for a map, the boys hope to find a promised land where blacks can live as free men. Their story alternates with Toloki's, as the two narratives cast a new light on America in the twenty-first century and on an undiscovered legacy of the Underground Railroad.
