Overview
Region
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
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