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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mda, Zakes.
        Ways of dying : a novel / Zakes Mda. 1st Picador ed.
                  p. cm.
        ISBN: 978-0-312-95169-6
        ISBN: 0-312-95169-8

        1. Funeral rites and ceremonies—Fiction. 2. Weepers (Mourners)—
Fiction. 3. South Africa—Fiction. 4. Blacks—Fiction. 5. Grief—Fiction.
6. Death—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9369.3.M4 W39 2002
823′914—dc21                                                                        2002066772

First published in South Africa by Oxford University Press Southern Africa

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