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Waiting for the Rain: Charles Mungoshi - Softcover

Mungoshi, Charles

 
9781035906123: Waiting for the Rain: Charles Mungoshi
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1035906120 ISBN 13: 9781035906123
Verlag: Apollo, 2024

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In this poignant novel, award-winning author, Charles Mungoshi, explores the consequences of colonialism in 1960s Zimbabwe. Waiting for the Rain asks how a nation can look to the future and preserve its traditions while being tied down to the present tyranny of its oppressors.

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Charles Mungoshi was born in 1947 in the Chivhu area of Zimbabwe. He was a novelist, playwright, and founding figure of modern Zimbabwean literature.

After graduating from the University of Zimbabwe, Mungoshi worked at the Literature Bureau as an editor and at Zimbabwe Publishing House until 1986. He returned to university as a Writer in Residence and continued to work as a freelance writer, scriptwriter and editor.

Mungoshi was twice awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa) in 1988 and 1998 for his short story collections, The Setting Sun and the Rolling World and Walking Still.

Two of his novels, Waiting for the Rain (1975) and Ndiko kupindana kwa mazuva (1975) received International PEN awards.

Mungoshi died in 2019.

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In this poignant novel, award-winning author, Charles Mungoshi, explores the consequences of colonialism in 1960s Zimbabwe. Waiting for the Rain asks how a nation can look to the future and preserve its traditions while being tied down to the present tyranny of its oppressors.

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Verlag
Apollo
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1035906120
ISBN 13 
9781035906123
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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