num_pages: 200
description: Written in the style of "magic realism," this tragic-comic contemporary novel is set against the backdrops of shabby but vibrant city slums and a rural South African community. The story's hero, Toloki, is an eccentric yet dignified professional mourner whose different worlds are reconciled,amid an atmosphere charged with bizarre realism, when he finds love and makes peace with his past.
language: English
title: Ways of Dying
titlecomplete: Ways of Dying (Southern African Writing)
genres: Fiction, African Literature, Magical Realism, South Africa, Literature, Adult, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Africa
ratings_count: 1795
series: Toloki
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: M-Net Literary Award
publisher: Oxford University Press