Verlag | Faber & Faber, London |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 352 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,9 x 2,1 cm |
Gewicht | 274 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0571324193 |
EAN | 9780571324194 |
Bestell-Nr | 57132419EA |
Petina Gappah returns with another collection of stories, exploring modern Zimbabwe
Klappentext:
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 of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.
Rezension:
Gappah's short stories depict contemporary Zimbabwe as a place of both reassuring normality and unnerving extremes. She exposes the venality, criminality and hypocrisy, but always with mordant humour. Rebecca Rose Financial Times Books of the Year