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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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