{"product_id":"fools-bells-and-the-habit-of-eating-three-satires-by-zakes-mda","title":"Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating: Three Satires by Zakes Mda","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781868143771\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWits University Press, January 2002\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e184 pages, Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa’s leading writes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda’s work, that government by those who inherit a revolution is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, hijacked by the smart operators.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Bells of Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the themes of the other two plays but adds to them the concept of ‘healing’, both of the soul and of the land, in a lyrical work which holds out more hope than do its companions in this volume. The plays are introduced by Rob Amato, who directed much of Mda’s earlier work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47313193533602,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/61GaFWjTh2L._SY342.jpg?v=1780660995","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/fools-bells-and-the-habit-of-eating-three-satires-by-zakes-mda","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}