Harare North - Hardcover

Chikwava, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224086111 ISBN 13: 9780224086110

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2009

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Page by page, line by line, Brian has created a perfectly original and true narrative voice. ..Full of surprises, delicious little tics, and real fire-in-the-belly creativity ..but importantly, the voice comes off as effortless, and therefore true....it's a major accomplishment. (Tod Wodicka author of ALL SHALL BE WELL)

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When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and an email address for his childhood friend, Shingi.Finessing his way through immigration, he spends a few restless weeks as the very unwelcome guest in his cousin's home before tracking down Shingi in a Brixton squat.

In this astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize winner Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a refugee.This is the story of a stranger in a strange land - one of the thousands of illegal Zimbabwean immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide.From the first line the language fizzes with energy, humour and not a little menace.As he struggles to make his life in London (the 'Harare North' of the title) and battles with the weight of what he has left behind in a strife-torn Zimbabwe, every expectation and preconception (both his and ours) is turned on its head.The inhabitants of the squat function at various levels of desperation: Shingi struggles to find meaningful work and to meet the demands of his family back home; Tsitsi makes a living renting out her baby to women defrauding Social Services; Alex claims to have an important job in Croydon.

Fearlessly political, laugh-out-loud funny and with an anti-hero whose voice is impossible to forget, Chikwava's novel is an arresting account of London as it is experienced by the Africa's dispossessed.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0224086111
• ISBN 13: 9780224086110
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240