Zakes Mda

Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating: Three Satires

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Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa's leading writes. The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance. You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda's work, that government by those who inherit a revolution is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, hijacked by the smart operators. The Bells of Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the isolation imposed by… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-86814-377-1
EAN: 9781868143771
Produktnummer: 25581725
Verlag: Wits Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Masse: H21.9 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.4 cm 247 g
Gewicht: 247

Über den Autor

Zakes Mda is a multiple award-winning playwright, novelist, painter, composer and filmmaker. Mda has published 19 books which have been translated into several languages and has won the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Sunday Times Literary Prize, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and the American Library Association Notable Book. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University.