Southern Africa
Zimbabwe
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Zamani, a lodger, insinuates himself into a Zimbabwean family devastated by the disappearance of their son during Mugabe's Gukurahundi massacres. An unreliable narrator's dark, funny, disturbing novel.
Literary Significance
One of the first novels to directly address the Gukurahundi genocide of the Ndebele people in the 1980s
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editorial-summarynot primary textZamani, a lodger, insinuates himself into a Zimbabwean family devastated by the disappearance of their son during Mugabe's Gukurahundi massacres. An unreliable narrator's dark, funny, disturbing novel. One of the first novels to directly address the Gukurahundi genocide of the Ndebele people in the 1980s
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