(.) Ways of Dying is not an adult novel and will frustrate the English adult reader.
" Ways of Dying is a politically brave work, one which uncompromisingly suggests that the new leadership about to assume power has elements that are elitist and corrupt (.) Ways of Dying is saved from its whiff of didactic one-dimensionality by the eccentric quirks of its main character. Despite its lighthearted touches, though, as the title suggests, Mda's story is still rooted in the endemic violence that has long stained South Africa" - Anderson Tepper, The Village Voice "(A) rollicking, at times whimsical tour through the dying days of apartheid as witnessed by the Professional Mourner, Toloki, who wanders from township funeral to township funeral with the hapless wonder of a Chaplinesque loner. "There are shades of the absurd in Mda's darkly humorous descriptions of the crime, poverty, violence and ethnic unrest that plague the characters in this oddly affecting novel." - Publishers Weekly. The spirits will deliver." - Norman Rush, The New York Review of Books "Mda finally seems to be saying that if violence is in this particular people, then so is the answer and solution to violence, in the form of the people's gods and ancestors. 
"Mr Mda adds a touch of magic to the grim realism more common in accounts of black South African life." - The Economist.
Generally favourable, though find it a bit simple General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorĪ- : impressive (if somewhat simple) story of recent South African history Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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