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Chioniso and other stories / by Shimmer Chinodya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chinodya, Shimmer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zimbabwe--Fiction.
- Zimbabwe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Avondale, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this new collection, Chioniso and other stories, we are once again reminded how Shimmer Chinodya mines his experience for nuggets. Playing with his doppelganger, Godfrey, he looks back on life in Harare, and in Zimbabwe, over the last decade, exploring it from a familial perspective. How does a father cope with a rebellious daughter or a wife he perceives as wayward? How does one mediate traditional gender roles? What to do when status in the form of a car undermines the stability of a marriage? How does one manage a friendship with a new farmer? What moral compromises are demanded by new w
- Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Author; Contents; Martha's Hero; Why Not?; Queues; Tavonga; The Car; Chionisio; Prisons on the Road; Indigenous; Last Laugh; Infidel; Back cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613660619
- 9781779221919
- 1779221916
- 9781280683671
- 1280683678
- 9781779221896
- 1779221894
- 9781779221902
- 1779221908
- 9781779221889
- 1779221886
- OCLC:
- 817086919
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