We are all Zimbabweans now - Softcover

Kilgore, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1415200718 ISBN 13: 9781415200711

Verlag: Umuzi, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This is a compelling detective novel uncovering layers of idealism down to the disintegrated core of a once promising African new beginning. In 1981 a young American historian arrives in Zimbabwe filled with idealism and enthusiasm for the benevolent new Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and the postcolonial new beginning for that country. His historic research leads him to an apparent murder case, unresolved since the days of the bush war. As he draws - or is lead - or yet mislead - closer to an answer, he becomes involved with a local woman through whom he soon finds himself in the inner circle of the new ruling class. Once the euphoria starts dissipating he encounters increasingly menacing instances of corruption and repression, including threats to himself to abandon his investigation. With every new revelation a new layer of decay is exposed and with that, his idealism retreats. In the process, the meaning of the novel's title, taken from Mugabe's conciliatory rhetoric at the beginning, gradually comes to mean: we are all trapped and compromised into the moral tangle and the destruction into which all the promise has degenerated. This is an extremely accomplished and compelling novel that deftly employs the instruments of a detective thriller.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Kilgore first made news in South Africa when he was arrested in Cape Town in 2002. He had been living under the alias Dr John Pape and become a respected academic at the University of Cape Town. U.S. authorities extradited him to California where he served six and a half years in prison. He was released 10 May 2009. Kilgore grew up in California and lived in the volatile San Francisco Bay Area during the late 60s and early 70s. He became immersed in left-wing politics, eventually linking up with the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). His involvement with the SLA led to an indictment in 1975. Kilgore then fled the law for 27 years, living in Zimbabwe, Australia and South Africa.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Umuzi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1415200718
• ISBN 13: 9781415200711
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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