Cion (Paperback)

A Picador Paperback Original
The hero of Zakes Mda's beloved "Ways of Dying, " Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who were their ancestors.
Toloki, the professional mourner, has come to live in America. Lured to Athens, Ohio, by an academic at the local university, Toloki makes friends with an angry young man he meets at a Halloween parade and soon falls in love with the young man's sister. Toloki endears himself to a local quilting group and his quilting provides a portal to the past, a story of two escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio.
Making their way north from Virginia with nothing but their mother's quilts for a map, the boys hope to find a promised land where blacks can live as free men. Their story alternates with Toloki's, as the two narratives cast a new light on America in the twenty-first century and on an undiscovered legacy of the Underground Railroad.

General

Imprint:	St Martin's Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Zakes Mda
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-42706-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-312-42706-9
Barcode:	9780312427061

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