WINNER OF THE 2020 CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 "Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative, Out of Darkness, Shining Light is a novel that lends voice to those who appeared only as footnotes in history, yet whose...

Out of Darkness, Shining Light von Gappah, Petina

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly...

The Book of Memory von Gappah, Petina

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light von Gappah, Petina

Winner of the "Guardian" First Book Prize in 2009 for "An Elegy For Easterly", this is a new collection of stories that cross the barriers of class, gender, race and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe. von Gappah, Petina

Collection of powerful short stories set in contemporary Zimbabwe, highlighting the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle under Robert Mugabe's regimes whilst also dealing with common, everyday problems. von Gappah, Petina

Memory, the narrator of The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appeal her lawyer insists that she write down...