The Heart of Redness
by Mda, Zakes
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0195714776
- ISBN 13
- 9780195714777
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 2002) 0195714776. 197 x 127 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 320. Lightly rubbed; some foxing to edges and outermost leaves; gift inscription to first page. Good to very good condition. "'The strangers said I must tell the nation that all cattle now living must be slaughtered ... The fields must not be cultivated ... When the time is ripe the whole community of the dead will arise, and new cattle will fill the kraals.' In the 1850s Nongqawuse brought this message from the ancestors to the Xhosa people. Her prophecy split them into Believers and Unbelievers, and had consequences that devastated the entire nation. A hundred and fifty years later the feud between Believers and Unbelievers still simmers in Qolorha: when plans are mooted to build a casino in the village they once again battle over their future and face the loss of their heritage ..." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12440
- Title
- The Heart of Redness
- Author
- Mda, Zakes
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195714776
- ISBN 13
- 9780195714777
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 2002) 0195714776
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- This edition first published
- 2002-03
- Keywords
- Xhosa. Ancestors. Great Cattle Killing. Eastern Cape South African Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- South African Literature;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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