As Zakes Mda's fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus
is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see
whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone
home, the whale caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he
has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails
to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous
lover--oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman
who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with
him.
The two misfits eventually fall in love. But each of them is ill
equipped for romance, and their relationship suggests, in the words
of "The Washington Post, " that "the deeper, darker concern here is
not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself
when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart."
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