{"product_id":"9780374708283","title":"Ways of Dying: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the M-Net Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWays of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a \"professional mourner\" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWays of Dying \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077660885232,"sku":"9780374708283","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374708283_p0.jpg?v=1769917667","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374708283","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}