THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR

268 pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2002) 2019

South African playwright and novelist Zakes Mda is also a musician, film maker, painter, academic and beekeeper. His other novels include "Ways of Dying" (M-Net Book Prize), "Heart of Redness" (Sunday Times Fiction Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize), "Cion", and "Black Diamond". His plays include "We Shall Sing for the Fatherland" and "The Hill" (Amstel Playwright of the Year Award). He has also published short stories, poetry and literary criticism.