Little Suns
About this book
It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana - 'Little Suns' - searches for his beloved Mthwakazi after many lonely years spent in Lesotho. Mthwakazi was the young woman he had fallen in love with twenty years earlier, before the assassination of Hamilton Hope ripped the two of them apart.
Intertwined with Malangana's story, is the account of Hope - a colonial magistrate who, in the late nineteenth century, was undermining the local kingdoms of the eastern Cape in order to bring them under the control of the British. It was he who wanted to coerce Malangana's king and his people, the amaMpondomise, into joining his battle - a scheme Malangana's conscience could not allow. Zakes Mda's fine novel
Little Suns weaves the true events surrounding the death of Magistrate Hope into a touching story of love and perseverance that can transcend exile and strife.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Monday December 7, 1903
- Thursday September 2, 1880
- Sunday December 13, 1903
- Monday January 6, 1879
- Saturday February 8, 1879
- Saturday September 25, 1880
- Monday December 14, 1903
- Monday October 4, 1880
- Wednesday December 16, 1903
- Friday October 22, 1880
- Saturday December 19, 1903
- Saturday October 23, 1880
- Monday December 28, 1903
- Sunday October 24, 1880
- Saturday February 27, 1904
- Monday May 2, 1881
- Tuesday March 29, 1904
- Saturday April 5, 1890
- Wednesday April 27, 1904
- Wednesday December 2, 1903
- Tuesday May 17, 1904
- Epilogue: Thursday December 12, 1912
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
