An Elegy for Easterly

Informationen zum Autor Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge! Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. She lives with her son Kush in Geneva! where she works as counsel in an international organisation that provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries. She is currently completing The Book of Memory ! her first novel. Klappentext Collection of powerful short stories set in contemporary Zimbabwe, highlighting the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle under Robert Mugabe's regimes whilst also dealing with common, everyday problems. An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah is a n unforgettable collection of stories set in Zimbabwe, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story 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;

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An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah is an unforgettable collection of stories set in Zimbabwe, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award.

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Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. She lives with her son Kush in Geneva, where she works as counsel in an international organisation that provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries. She is currently completing The Book of Memory, her first novel.

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Collection of powerful short stories set in contemporary Zimbabwe, highlighting the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle under Robert Mugabe's regimes whilst also dealing with common, everyday problems.

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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story 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;