Winner of the M-Net Book Prize Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In 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.
At a Christmas day funera.
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.
Winner of the M-Net Book Prize Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In 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