They are Coming

Chris Mlalazi

Description

This is the story of a small family in Lobengula township, Bulawayo: a shoemaker, Ngwenya, his wife, MaVundla, and their two children, Ambition and Senzeni, whose lives are turned upside-down when Senzeni joins the local youth militia. Mlalazi captures the texture of everyday life in the township, the humour, warmth, rivalry and fear as neighbours interact with each other or get swept up by events outside their control. Their constant search, however, is for autonomy and independence, for the ability to have control over their own lives. They are Coming provides us with perspectives often hidden from view, in a story where particular events are part of a more complex history.

Sujets

• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Weaver Press
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781779222619
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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They are Coming

They are Coming

Christopher Mlalazi

Published by Weaver Press, Box A1922, Avondale, Harare. 2014 <www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com>

© Christopher Mlalazi, 2014

Typeset by Weaver Press Cover Design: Design Duo, Harare Cover illustration: Calvin Chimutuwah Printed by: Directory Publishers, Harare and Bulawayo

All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without the express written permission of the publisher.

ISBN: 978-1-77922-258-9

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CHRISTOPHER MLALAZI is currently Guest Writer of the City of Hanover in Germany, the most recent of a series of writing fellowships. In 2012, he was a fellow at the Iowa International Writing Program, USA; in 2011, he was Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden; and, in 2010, Guest Writer at Villa Aurora, in Los Angeles, USA. Prolific as a prose writer and playwright, in 2008 he was the co-winner of the Oxfam Novib PEN Freedom of Expression Award at the Hague for theatre. He won NAMA awards for his short story collection,Dancing With Life: Tales From The Townshipand for his playElection Day. His second novel,Running with Mother, has been translated into German and Italian.

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