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hopeful story have helped it become the most-read children's book in Britain

'It's every mother's nightmare

Walter must adapt to a new way of life

From the brightly-coloured houses of the Malay Quarter and the bustle of Green Point market

Ways Of Dying 6000600072203 hopeful story have helped itIn "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. 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. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman