Add this copy of The Madonna of Excelsior to cart. $8.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
Add this copy of The Madonna of Excelsior: a Novel to cart. $42.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Add this copy of The Madonna of Excelsior to cart. $59.00, very good condition, Sold by Hourglass Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, BC, CANADA, published 2004 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 10; signed and dated 17/10/2012 by Zakes Mda on the title page with no inscription at the 2012 Vancouver International Writers Festival; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition.
Add this copy of The Madonna of Excelsior: a Novel to cart. $137.22, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Add this copy of The Madonna of the Excelsior to cart. $21.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 2004. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374200084. 261 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Kwasi Osei. Jacket art: Madonna and Child by Tim Ashkar. Author photograph by NomCebo. keywords: Africa South Africa Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-In THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR, the new novel by the acclaimed South African writer Zakes Mda, a sex scandal in a small town is transformed into an emblematic story of a country whose racial history can be rendered authoritatively only in art. In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior, a farming community in South Africa's rural Free State, were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sexual relations between blacks and whites on the pretext of avoiding miscegenation. The women were jailed as they awaited trial and their white counterparts were released on bail. In the end, the state withdrew the charges, but the accused women's lives, already complicated, became harder than ever. Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal, revealing a country in which apartheid, even as it sought to keep the races apart, concealed interracial liaisons of every kind. Niki, the fallen Madonna, transgresses boundaries for the sake of love; her choices have profound repercussions in the lives of her black son, Viliki, and her mixed-race daughter, Popi, who come of age in the years after the end of apartheid, when freedom allows them-indeed compels them-to figure out their racial identities for themselves. As the story advances to the present, the mixed society of Excelsior comes to suggest South Africa today, a society far more complex-and more dramatic-than conventional notions of black and white will allow. In this, his fourth novel-his first since the acclaimed THE HEART OF REDNESS-Zakes Mda once more reclaims the troubled history of his country as the terrain of the imaginative writer. inventory #34192.
