Dancing with life : tales from the township / Christopher Mlalazi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mlalazi, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Zimbabwean (English).

Short stories--21st century.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bulawayo [Zimbabwe] : 'amaBooks, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dancing with Life is a collection of short stories by Christopher Mlalazi. He has had stories published in anthologies inside and outside Zimbabwe, this is his first collection. ""Christopher Mlalazi may well be the most promising young writer in Zimbabwe today. His fiction captures the edgy energy of townships where young people have learned to be light on their feet, their dancing born of economic necessity and mocking disrespect for traditional authority. Mlalazi depicts contemporary life in Zimbabwe with an uncompromising determination to explore grievous social wounds and with a creative

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; BrokenWings; Election Day; The Border Jumpers; Eeish!; Dancing with Life; The Matchstick Man; Fragments; When The Fish Caught Him; The Bulldozers Are Coming; A Heart in My Hole; Glossary; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7974-4411-4

1-282-86892-6

9786612868924

0-7974-4349-5

0-7974-4348-7

0-7974-4229-4

OCLC:

741350453