Can we talk & other stories / Shimmer Chinodya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chinodya, Shimmer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zimbabwe--Fiction.

Zimbabwe.

Short stories, African (English).

e-books.

Electronic books.

Genre:

Nouvelles.

Short stories.

Fiction

Short stories

short stories.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Can we talk and other stories

Place of Publication:

Avondale, Harare : Weaver Press, [2017]

Summary:

Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.

Contents:

Hoffman Street

The man who hanged himself

Going to see Mr B. V.

Among the dead

Brothers and sisters

Snow

The waterfall

Play your cards right

Strays

Bramson

Can we talk.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"First published by Baobab Books, Harare 1998, reprinted in 2001"--Verso of title page.

ISBN:

1-77922-316-1

OCLC:

1048924368