LITTLE SUNS

268pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2015

Winner of 2017 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.

 Novel set in 1903 based on true events surrounding the death of colonial magistrate Hamilton Hope.

Zakes Mda's novels include Ways of Dying (M-Net Book Prize), The Heart of Redness (Commonwealth Writers Prize), The Whale Caller and Wayfarer's Hymns. Born in the Eastern Cape in 1948, he spent his early childhood in Soweto and completed his schooling in Lesotho. Mda is a recipient of South Africa’s Order of Ikhamanga. He lives in the USA.