Ndima Ndima

Tsitsi Mapepa

Description

• 300 review copies (150 prepub, 150 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others. 
• Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss. 
• Blog tour with book giveaways. 
• Goodreads giveaway. 
• We will seek features and reviews from newspapers, magazines, and journals. 
• We will seek blurbs from bestselling African literary authors including Tendai Huchu, Novuo Rosa Tshuma, Zukisa Wanner, Irene Sabatini, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, and Petina Gappah
• We will create a reading guide for book clubs and others interested in reading the book in a group setting. The reading guide will be printed in the book and will include a Q&A with the author. 
• We will seek out book clubs who are interested in the book and offer the chance to win a SKYPE visit with the author. 
• Promotion at book fairs and trade shows--ALA annual, ALA mid-winter, African Studies Association, etc. 
• We will submit the book for all relevant awards. 
• Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email newsletter, and social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts. 
• Simultaneous e-book and print release. 
• Readers Guide available.

In Tsitsi Mapepa’s evocative debut, the lives of a headstrong matriarch and her resourceful, passionate youngest daughter—as well as the fate of an entire community—play out across decades of Zimbabwean history, from the 1960s-70s Rhodesian Bush War through the turn of the century. A testament to motherhood, sisterhood, and the women leaders we rely on in all walks of life, Ndima Ndima expertly weaves in the chronicle of a country in the midst of transformation and elements of magical realism and humor into the compelling and heartbreaking story of one family in search of peace.

COMING OF AGE IN AFRICA: Following four sisters—Nyeredzi, Abigail, Hannah, and Ruth—and their justice-driven, devoted mother as they navigate poverty, a rapidly changing society, and the trials of young womanhood, Ndima Ndima could be considered a new-age Little Women from Africa. The structure of the story also bears resemblance to Angela Flournoy's bestselling debut The Turner House.

FEMINIST TO ITS CORE: Zuva, our paramount character, is an incredibly dynamic lead. Having left her village—where she was to serve as chief upon the passing of her parents, bypassing her older brother—she becomes a highly respected soldier in the Rhodesian Bush War. Later, as a mother, she teachers her girls how to survive on the land, keep themselves safe, take their fates in their own hands, and do right by their loved ones and community. She fearlessly faces down violent men and militias while leading her family and people with compassion and laughter. 

ABOUT ZIMBABWE, FROM ZIMBABWE: Mapepa was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and her nuanced cultural knowledge, as well as her deeply rooted love for the people of Southern Africa, shines through her work. And at a time when the literary world is hungry for Zimbabwean literature—see Tsitsi Dangarembga, NoViolet Bulawayo, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Petina Gappah, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone, Tendia Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare—as well as for debut works of fiction, Mapepa’s debut is well-positioned.

ON THE COATTAILS OF GREATS: A perfect follow-up to the final book in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s Windham-Campbell Prize award-winning City of Kings trilogy (set in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), which we will publish 2.5 months before Ndima Ndima, this book combines the softer literary elements of Siphiwe’s work with the vibrant, no-nonsense style of We Need New Names’ young narrator.

Sujets

• World Literature
• Literary
• Historical
• Women
• Zimbabue
• Rodesia
• África
• Literature
• Southern Africa
• General officer
• Woman
• Rhodesia
• The Women
• General
• Africa
• Harare
• Fiction
• Zimbabwe

Informations

• Publié par: Catalyst Press
• Date de parution: 07 novembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781946395979
• Langue: English

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