The Whale Caller
As Zakes Mda's fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the whale caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous lover--oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him.The two misfits eventually fall in love. But each of them is ill equipped for romance, and their relationship sugge…
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- ISBN: 978-0-312-42587-6
- EAN: 9780312425876
- Produktnummer: 19332545
- Verlag: St Martins Pr 3Pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 328 g
- Gewicht: 328
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