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An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe. A woman in a township is surrounded by dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour ...Show more
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative.' Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his ow ...Show more
Out of Darkness, Shining Light - A Novel by Petina Gappah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Prize-winning author Petina Gappah's tale of Dr Livingstone's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is'incredible' (Yaa Gyasi), 'powerful' (Jesmyn Ward), and 'beautiful' (Anthony Doerr).
Rotten Row by Petina Gappah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. 'Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of l ...Show more
Rotten Row by Petina Gappah
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In her accomplished new story collection, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in Zimbabwe to explore the causes and effects of crime, and to meditate on the nature of justice. Rotten Row represents a leap in artistry and achievement from the award-winning author ...Show more
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, but really it was just my mother. ...Show more
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
InThe Book of Memory, an albino woman named Memory is languishing in a maximum security prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been tried and convicted of murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened; that is, the events that led to the killing of her adoptive f ...Show more
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