The whale caller - Zakes MdaCondition: New 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. 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. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous lover oblivious to the fact that the town

Their goal

What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals is that the Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that

and leading figures in political organizations

This unique collection of stories offers a biting portrait of inner-city Jo'burg (Johannesburg)

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when the optimism of the 60s was giving way to the anger and bombs of the early 70s

He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker

grief and guilt

the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love

Risking his own life

highly desirable

The precious stone they spent most of their lives digging brought no shine to their lives – only pain