![]() The novel also opposes the findings of the Nhlapho Commission, which in 2010 rejected the kingship of the amaMpondomise, whose kingship was taken from them after the murder of Hope.įourie Botha, publisher of local fiction for Penguin Random House, says: “A new novel by Zakes Mda is a brilliant event. They were parted after the assassination of Hamilton Hope, a British magistrate in the 19th Century Cape Colony, and their love story weaves itself into the true history of Hope’s assassination and into the exile of members of the author’s family from Qumbu to Lesotho, and later to Herschel on the Cape Colony side of the Lesotho border. In the novel, to be released in December, Malangana (“Little Suns”) searches for his beloved Mthwakazi. ![]() Zakes Mda’s new novel, a work of historical fiction titled Little Suns, will be published by Umuzi in 2015. ![]()
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