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The Madonna of excelsior

A new novel by a towering presence in contemporary South African literature In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal -and of a country in which apartheid concealed interracial liaisons of every kind. Niki, the fallen madonna, transgresses boundaries for the sake of love; her choices have repercussions in the lives of her black son and mixed-race daughter, who come of age in post-apartheid South Africa, where freedom prompts them to reexamine their country's troubled history at first hand. By turns earthy, witty, and tragic, The Madonna of Excelsior is a brilliant depiction of life in South Africa and of the dramatic changes between the 1970s and the present.

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  • "A new novel by a towering presence in contemporary South African literature In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal -and of a country in which apartheid concealed interracial liaisons of every kind. Niki, the fallen madonna, transgresses boundaries for the sake of love; her choices have repercussions in the lives of her black son and mixed-race daughter, who come of age in post-apartheid South Africa, where freedom prompts them to reexamine their country's troubled history at first hand. By turns earthy, witty, and tragic, The Madonna of Excelsior is a brilliant depiction of life in South Africa and of the dramatic changes between the 1970s and the present."@en
  • "A novel takes readers deep into the heart of apartheid in the early 1970s, focusing on a mixed race family that is trying to survive on the closely regulated line between black and white."
  • "A novel takes readers deep into the heart of apartheid in the early 1970s, focusing on a mixed race family that is trying to survive on the closely regulated line between black and white."@en

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman sud-africain de langue anglaise"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "The Madonna of excelsior"@en
  • "The madonna of Excelsior : [a novel]"
  • "The Madonna of excelsior : [a novel]"
  • "Die Madonna von Excelsior : [Roman]"
  • "Die Madonna von Excelsior"
  • "The Madonna of Excelsior"@en
  • "The Madonna of Excelsior"
  • "La Madonna di Excelsior"@it
  • "La Madonna di Excelsior"
  • "The madonna of Excelsior"@en
  • "The madonna of Excelsior"
  • "The Madonna of Excelsior : [a novel]"
  • "The madonna of excelsior"

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