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Windows into Zimbabwe : [an anthology of short stories] / compiled and introduced by Franziska Kramer and Jürgen Kramer.
LIBRA PR9390.5 .W56 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Zimbabwean (English).
- Zimbabwe--Fiction.
- Zimbabwe.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Avondale, Harare : Weaver Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Over the past fifteen years, Weaver Press has published seven anthologies of some one hundred short stories giving voice to new and established Zimbabwean writers. In Windows into Zimbabwe Franziska Kramer and Jürgen Kramer have selected from these anthologies twenty-three stories, which they consider the best or most representative of a particular period in the Zimbabwean narrative since 1980. They present the stories within sections which frame certain themes such as Independence, Gukurahundi, Land, Gender Relations, Money Matters, Social Relations, Exile and Resilience."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Queues dress / Shimmer Chinodya
- Fancy dress / Alexander Fuller
- That special place / Freedom Nyamubaya
- Torn posters / Gugu Ndlovu
- When the moon stares / Christopher Mlalazi
- The trek / Lawrence Hoba
- Sins of the fathers / Charles Mugoshi
- Trespassers / Chiedza Musengezi
- Mainini Grace's promise / Valerie Tagwira
- Message in a bottle / Isabella Matambanadzo
- Gold digger / Albert Gumbo
- A land of starving millionaires / Erasmus R. Chinyani
- The donor's visit / Sekai Nzenza
- The rainbow cardigan / John Eppel
- The Mupandawana dancing champion / Petina Gappah
- Moria's interview / Julius Chingono
- Dinner time / Bongani Sibanda
- The letter / Farai Mpofu
- Shamisos / NoViolet Bulawayo
- A secret sin / Daniel Mandishona
- Seventh street alchemy / Brian Chikwana
- The General's gun / Jonathan Brakarsh
- The Grim reaper's car / Nevanji Madanhire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781779223692
- 1779223692
- 9781779223487
- 177922348X
- OCLC:
- 1143021634
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