The Madonna of Excelsior

The Madonna of Excelsior

By Zakes Mda

Pages

288

Rating

3.98

Year

2004

FictionHistorical FictionHistoricalAfricaNovelsSouth Africa

Description

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 one irrepressible fallen madonna, Niki, and her family, at the heart of the scandal.

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