In 1904, they did what all good beer manufacturers do and sponsored a baseball team in the Milwaukee Brewers League. Also that year, the Worldâs Fair came to St. Louis and the company had the honour of exhibiting a massive, 24ft high bottle depicting the spring house at the brewery.
The Whale Caller by Zakes Mda is the story of a love triangle between the Whale Caller, the whale Sharisha and the alcoholic Saluni. While the story is compelling, the reader will have to dig through layer of symbolism. At times I found it fascinating at times but at other times just wearying.
The Whale Caller. 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.