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An Elegy for Easterly: Faber Stories
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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An Elegy for Easterly: Faber Stories
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Petina Gappah
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| Series | Faber Stories |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:48 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 160,Width 111 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571351794
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.92 |
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| Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
3 January 2019 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be destroyed. Among them is Martha Mupengo. She has lost her wits, and gained a pregnancy. Who could be the baby's father, and what fate awaits mothers and children in this temporary, poverty-stricken town?
Author Biography
Petina Gappah is an international lawyer and writer who was born in Kitwe, Zambia and raised in Zimbabwe. She is the author of An Elegy for Easterly, The Book of Memory and Rotten Row. Her work has shortlisted for, among others, the Orwell Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN America Open Book Award and the Prix Femina (Etrangers). She is the 2009 recipient of the Guardian First Book Award and the 2016 recipient of the McKitterick Prize from the Society of Authors. Having spent more than a decade working as an international trade lawyer in Geneva, Petina now divides her time between Harare and Berlin, where she is a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm.
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