The heart of redness

Zakes Mda

first published 2001 Oxford University Press, 2001 320 pages

"In The Heart of Redness 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, Camagu, who had left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha...

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The heart of redness paperback · 2003 · Picador · 277 pages · 9780312421748
The heart of redness edition · 2002 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 277 pages
The heart of redness edition · 2001 · Oxford University Press · 320 pages

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