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Harare Voices and Beyond

Autor Andrew Chatora
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2023
_x001C_ Harare Voices and Beyond takes us on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche._x001D_ %Sue Quainton, Bicester, United Kingdom A drunken confession exposes a dark family secret. Rhys appears to have it all. A white Zimbabwean living in affluent Borrowdale Brooke area he gets involved in a freak traffic accident. Therein unfolds a confession which unleashes a cathartic chain of events in the family_x0019_ s hitherto well-choreographed life, a family whose lived experience becomes microcosmic and an eye opener to Zimbabwe_x0019_ s seemingly closed, forgotten, white minority community. Through offering a rare insight into lives of the white community in post-independence Zimbabwe, Harare Voices and Beyond explores the dynamics of love, money, family feuds, identity politics, false philanthropy, and respectability inter-alia. Two families_x0019_ lives are inexorably linked in this fast-paced narrative which not only traverses multiple locations, but also juxtaposes the seedy underbelly of Harare with the leafy northern suburbs, and little-known Marina Thompson from UK Durham University all appear linked in a drama-infused finale that will shock and numb the reader. Endorsement:Daring. Harare Voices and Beyond is full of intrigue and brutality. An unflinching portrait of broken families and a broken society.%Paida Chiwara In this his third novel, fire brand Zimbabwean novelist, Andrew Chatora, demonstrates that every man understands the complexity of his crime and the subsequently unsuitable punishment. This is a rare story about loss and strife in post independent Zimbabwe.This is a detective story with no detectives. It is more like Doris Lessing_x0019_ s The Grass is Singing and Ngugi wa Thiongo_x0019_ s A Grain of Wheat in that the guilty is always in your midst, helping you solve the crime but making sure the criminal is not easily found. In the end you appreciate both the crime and the cause of the crime. You see that the criminal is an ordinary man who is driven over the precipice by irreparable generational loss. This is a deft work of art.%Memory Chirere, University of Zimbabwe Chatora expertly deals with unresolved trauma, psychosis, identity politics, citizenship, and nationhood issues through the portrait of both white and black Zimbabweans_x0019_ lived culture.%Malvern Mukudu, Writer & Journalist, Rhodes University, South Africa About the Author: Andrew Chatora is a Zimbabwean novelist, essayist and short-story writer based in Bicester, England. He grew up in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and moved to England in 2002. His debut novella, Diaspora Dreams (2021), was approvingly received and nominated for the National Arts Merit Awards (2022). His second book, Where the Heart Is, was published in the same year to considerable acclaim. Chatora_x0019_ s forthcoming book, Born Here, But Not in My Name, is a brave, humorous and psychologically penetrating portrait of post-Brexit Britain. Chatora is noted for his acerbic and honest depiction of the migrant experience. Heavily influenced by his own experience as a black English teacher in the United Kingdom, Chatora probes multi-cultural relationships, identity politics, blackness, migration, citizenship and nationhood.
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ISBN-13: 9781637461969
ISBN-10: 1637461968
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Kharis Publishing

Notă biografică

Andrew Chatora writes novels and short stories and hails from Zimbabwe. He received an MA in Media, Culture and Communication from UCL. His writing explores multifarious themes of belonging, identity politics, citizenship, and nationhood issues. Where the Heart Is, is his second novel following his highly successful debut novella: Diaspora Dreams. Andrew is principally interested in the global politics of inequality which he interrogates through his writing. When he is not writing, he is working on his PhD thesis on digital piracy, with Birmingham City University's School of Media and English.