num_pages: 302
description: When a postgraduate student of African languages, looking for a topic for her doctoral thesis, happens upon an obscure and incomplete lexicon of metaphorical names for indigenous Sanga-Nguni cattle by a long-dead academic, she knows, instinctively, that she has found her subject.
language: English
title: Recessional for Grace
titlecomplete: Recessional for Grace
ratings_count: 53
publisher: Viking