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Rotten Row

Petina Gappah author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:7th Sep '17

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Rotten Row cover

Petina Gappah returns with another collection of stories, exploring modern Zimbabwe

In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.

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 lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.

ISBN: 9780571324194

Dimensions: 198mm x 134mm x 24mm

Weight: 280g

352 pages

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