Toloki, the professional mourner, has come to live in America. Lured to Athens, Ohio, by an academic at the local university, Toloki makes friends with an angry young man he meets at a Halloween parade and soon falls in love with the young man’s sister. Toloki endears himself to a local quilting group and his quilting provides a portal to the past, a story of two escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio.
Making their way north from Virginia with nothing but their mother’s quilts for a map, the boys hope to find a promised land where blacks can live as free men. Their story alternates with Toloki’s, as the two narratives cast a new light on America in the twenty-first century and on an undiscovered legacy of the Underground Railroad.
Cion
by Zakes Mda
$5.00
Paperback
The hero of Zakes Mda’s beloved “Ways of Dying, ” Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who were their ancestors.
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Weight | .4 kg |
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Author | Zakes Mda |
Date of publication | 2007 |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780143025429 |
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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