It is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. 'Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects...

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...

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

"Die Schuldigen von Rotten Row: Stories" von Patricia Klobusiczky ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die in der fiktiven Rotten Row spielt, einer Straße, die als Mikrokosmos für verschiedene gesellschaftliche und menschliche Themen...

Out of Darkness, Shining Light von Gappah, Petina