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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Madonna of Excelsior Author: Zakes Mda Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 08-29-11 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: In 1971, 19 citizens of Excelsior, a farming community in South Africas rural Free States, were charged with breaking apartheids Immorality Act, which forbade sexual relations between blacks and whites on the pretext of avoiding miscegenation. The women were jailed as they awaited trial and their white counterparts were released on bail. In the end, the state withdrew the charges, but the accused womens lives, already complicated, became harder than ever. Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal, revealing a country in which apartheid, even as it sought to keep the races apart, concealed interracial liaisons of every kind. Niki, the fallen