Why Don't You Carve Other Animals?
"Caught between memory and dreaming, the hopeful exile weaves a comforting performance out of a tale of agony."\ The place is white-ruled Rhodesia of the seventies (now Zimbabwe), the exile the African in his own land. Young men and women flee from their villages to join the freedom fighters in the forest.\ These stories, set during the years of the armed struggle, tell of the other struggle, that of survival of those who stayed behind. Told essentially from the women's point of view in...
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As a guerrilla war rages aross the Zimbabwe countryside, a young woman finds refuge in the city. But the city, like any other, has its perils and takes away considerably more than it offers. A moving, uncompromising novel, written in a graceful poetic prose, about the horrors of war and oppression in the modern world, and their effects on the individual soul.
Crossing Boundaries1Independence Day27The Shoemaker31Shelling Peanuts37It Is Hard to Live Alone41Moon on the Water47A Thunderstorm51Whose Baby Is It?57The Bordered Road61Getting a Permit65Why Don't You Carve Other Animals71An Unyielding Circle75Ancestral Links79During the Ceasefire89It Is Over93
