As Zakes Mda\'s fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat.
When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the Whale Caller frets like a jealous lover--oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and re.
But when the tourists have gone home, the Whale Caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a Whale he has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn.
As Zakes Mda\'s fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat