Ways Of Dying 6000600072203 'It's every mother's nightmare

'It's every mother's nightmare

The boy fell to his death thirteen months earlier

From the brightly-coloured houses of the Malay Quarter and the bustle of Green Point market

hopeful story have helped it become the most-read children's book in Britain

The crime scenes offer no clues

Ways Of Dying 6000600072203 'It's every mother's nightmareIn "Ways of Dying," 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