EAN: 9780312421748

THE HEART OF REDNESS - ZAKES MDA KARTONIERT (TB)

A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa   In The Heart of Redness --
shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize -- Zakes Mda sets a story of South
African village life against a notorious episode from the country's past. The result is a novel
of great scope and deep human feeling  of passion and reconciliation.   As the novel opens
Camugu  who left for America during apartheid  has returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by
the problems of the new democracy  he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote
Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded
the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops  promising that once they did so the
spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. The
failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers  dividing brother from brother 
wife from husband  with devastating consequences.   One hundred fifty years later  the two
groups' decendants are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the
village  and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their future -- and into a bizarre
love triangle as well.   The Heart of Redness is a seamless weave of history  myth  and realist
fiction. It is  arguably  the first great novel of the new South Africa -- a triumph of
imaginative and historical writing.

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