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

'It's every mother's nightmare

but the menacing presence in the mansion and the ever-present temptation of the handsome Lucian de Vincent isn't something anyone can ignore

The crime scenes offer no clues

was hailed by financial writer Alec Hogg as 'a masterpiece in unblemished reality'

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

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