Tag: Fiction
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The Polygamist
The first Zimbabwean fiction I’ve read – and definitely not the last as a result of it.
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Conjure Women
“Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were…two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
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Milkman
“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you…
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Red At The Bone
“Guess that’s where the tears came from, knowing that there’s so much in this great big world that you don’t have a single ounce of control over.”
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Good Riddance
“Yes, she’d been their English teacher and yearbook advisor, but that didn’t explain her excessive collecting of signatures and tributes next to every senior’s photo…”
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