Short Stories2009

An Elegy for Easterly

Petina Gappah
Overview
Region

Southern Africa

Zimbabwe

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Short Stories

About This Work

Short stories set in Zimbabwe during Mugabe's collapse — in the high-density suburbs, the collapsing economy, the prisons. Dark, precise, and darkly comic.

Literary Significance

Guardian First Book Award; one of the most celebrated debuts in African fiction

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