Chipo Chung
1) Glory
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2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review
"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist...
“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review
"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist...
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The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga's award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been "hailed as one of the 20th century's most significant works of African literature" (The New
York Times). Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents,...
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A seashell and a sealed letter form a tenuous connectionto a forbidden wartime romance1937. Simon's Town is a vibrant and diverse community in a picturesque part ofthe Union of South Africa. At the heart of the town is the Royal Navy port, andLouise Ahrendts, daughter of a shipbuilder, nurtures the idea that through hardwork she could step beyond a destiny of domestic service. She dreams ofbecoming a nurse and she has the tenacity to make this dream...
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As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the Sacred Heart. Determined to excel, Tambu exhausts herself with her efforts to climb to the top of the school's honour rolls. The further she pushes herself, however, the farther she feels from any reward, and the roots of colonialism threaten to trip her at every step. The sequel to Nervous Conditions is as moving, darkly witty,...
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2022
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