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 cou...
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 cou...
