title: Ways of Dying: A Novel
author:  Zakes Mda 
description: Novelist and playwright Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying was a big hit in his native South Africa, where it was even adapted into a jazz opera. Toloki is a Professional Mourner, making a meager living by attending funerals in the violent city where he lives. In his ratty suit he adds "an aura of sorrow and dignity," often serving as peacemaker when fights break out. He encounters Noria, a childhood acquaintance whose son has just died, and the two renew their friendship, finding comfort in reminiscing over the harrowing events of their lives. There are shades of the absurd in Mda's darkly humorous descriptions of the crime, poverty, violence and ethnic unrest that plague the characters in this oddly affecting novel.<BR>Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  Dying for Power by Judith Cutler
  
  
  Also by Judith Cutler
  
  
  Dying Fall
  
  
  Dying To Write
  
  
  Dying On Principle
  
  
  Dying For Millions
  
  
  Dying For Power
  
  
  Judith Cutler
  
  
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  ### PIATKUS
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 1998 by Judith Cutler First published in Great Britain in 1998 by
  Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd of 5 Windmill Street. London Wl This edition
  published 1998
  
  
  The moral right of the author has been asserted.
  
  
  A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0
  7499 0438 0
  
  
  Phototypeset in Times by Intype London Ltd Printed and bound in Great Britain
  by Mackays of Chatham PLC. Chatham. Kent I would like to thank: Paul Mackney
  of NATFHE, for background information without which this book could not have
  been written; the men and women of the West Midlands Police Service for their
  patient help; Edwina Van Boolen and Frances Lally for their invaluable support
  and criticism; Robert Kornreich for being there when I needed him; and Flossie
  the 