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Rotten Row

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rotten Row
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Petina Gappah
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 134
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780571324194
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 7 September 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

It is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. 'Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.

Author Biography

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009. Her debut novel, The Book of Memory, was published in 2015.