The Heart of Redness

Zakes Mda is a well-known, award-winning South African author. His new novel depicts a rural village on the eastern Cape coast which faces a plan to build a holiday resort, and the centuries-old feud the plan re-ignites. Moving between the worlds of contemporary characters and their nineteenth-century ancestors, this novel is a triumph of imaginative and historical writing, showing how the past continues to live in the present.