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I liked Toloki's re-invention of himself as a professional mourner. I was immediately drawn into this book by this unique character and the first person plural narration. At first I thought that first person plural implied a folk tale, but this is a story that is too particular. The characters aren't archetypal folk heroes. Yet the book does reveal so much of what is happening to the poor in post-apartheid South Africa. In many ways the novel speaks for the entire third world where so many lives
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