The Madonna of Excelsior Audiobook

" I adored this book. A little bit of a hard read but it was excellent. "

" Still want to read more....and it's worth a visit to Excelsior: Free State at its best! "

" a bunch of blacks and whites have sex in a barn while a baby crawls around watching and playing with a bottle of alcohol. a mixed baby is born, farts in bed then grows up to run a library "

" I did not like it aa much as I wanted to. The ending felt very rushed and there was no clear indication of how much time had passed. "

" A fictionalised account of a well known scandal in South African history. I wanted to like this more than I did. "

" I was suppose to read this for a class last year and never got around to it. I held onto it because it seemed interesting and finally got around to it. I enjoyed the book but the story wasn't too fascinating. It did lead me to read more about South Africa and its history so that's good. "

" a tangle of art and music, politics, family drama. "

" I had to read this book as part of my UNISA degree. It was interesting! "

" i loved the book, Zakes Mda never dissapoints. "

" Excellent story that really captures the captures the complexities of apartheid and people's reactions to it. "

" This book grew on me. Moments of magic realism threw me at first but then the powerful storytelling took over and made it a book I'll always remember. "

" Although eventually the story did manage to draw me in, I was definitely put off by the lengthy and only somewhat relevant-seeming descriptions of paintings in the first part of the book. Still good, but I liked "Ways of Dying" much better. "

" I wasn't huge on the art motif throughout the book, but otherwise it's absolutely fabulous. A must-read, esp. if you're interested in South Africa. "

" Still want to read more....and it's worth a visit to Excelsior: Free State at its best! "

" Excellent story that really captures the captures the complexities of apartheid and people's reactions to it. "

" I adored this book. A little bit of a hard read but it was excellent. "

" I was suppose to read this for a class last year and never got around to it. I held onto it because it seemed interesting and finally got around to it. I enjoyed the book but the story wasn't too fascinating. It did lead me to read more about South Africa and its history so that's good. "

" I had to read this book as part of my UNISA degree. It was interesting! "

" This book grew on me. Moments of magic realism threw me at first but then the powerful storytelling took over and made it a book I'll always remember. "

" Although eventually the story did manage to draw me in, I was definitely put off by the lengthy and only somewhat relevant-seeming descriptions of paintings in the first part of the book. Still good, but I liked "Ways of Dying" much better. "