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Closer Look List Price: £9.37 From: Picador USA From: Picador USA Salesrank: 351490 Released: 2003-08 You Save: £ (%)! Lowest New Price: Click Here  Pages: 288 Format: Paperback Customer Rating: Also Shop International: (Not all items available internationally)          Customer Reviews: Contrast of Cultures This novel was a worthy winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa and the Sunday Times Fiction Award, both for 2001. In it, Zakes Mda introduces us to a clash of Cultures - not, as so often in South Africa, between black and white, but between educated urban black and rural poverty-stricken black. Camagu comes back from Hillbrow, Johannesburg, to his homeplace, a village in the Transkei. Here the people are still split between the Believers and the Unbelievers. Believers or not, that is, in the prophecies of a young girl 150 years ago. She told the Xhosa nation that they should kill all their cattle and not cultivate the fields. That when the the time was right, the dead (cattle and people) would rise and they would defeat their enemies. Instead, the nation was almost destroyed. The story Zakes Mda tells is interesting but, what gives it depth and complexity, is this interaction between past and present, between the modern and the traditional.I enjoyed it. Related Categories: >> >>Books >>Subjects >>Fiction >>General