Little Suns
by Zakes Mda
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Hardcover
It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana – ‘Little Suns’ – searches for his beloved Mthwakazi after many lonely years spent in Lesotho. Mthwakazi was the young woman he had fallen in love with twenty years earlier, before the assassination of Hamilton Hope ripped the two of them apart.
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Categories: Historical & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction
Tags: Death, Hope, Lost Love, Romance, Xhosa Geonology
‘There are many suns,’ he said. ‘Each day has its own. Some are small, some are big. I’m named after the small ones.’
Intertwined with Malangana’s story, is the account of Hope – a colonial magistrate who, in the late nineteenth century, was undermining the local kingdoms of the eastern Cape in order to bring them under the control of the British. It was he who wanted to coerce Malangana’s king and his people, the amaMpondomise, into joining his battle – a scheme Malangana’s conscience could not allow.
Zakes Mda’s fine new novel Little Suns weaves the true events surrounding the death of Magistrate Hope into a touching story of love and perseverance that can transcend exile and strife.
Weight | .45 kg |
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Author | Zakes Mda |
Date of publication | 11/2015 |
Format | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781415209042 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa |

Zakes Mda
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, better known as Zakes Mda, is an award-winning South African playwright and novelist whose work is published throughout the world. He is also an accomplished artist, a musician, a film maker and a beekeeper. And as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, he is an internationally acknowledged scholar.
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