Harare North

Name: Harare North
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ISBN: 9780099526759

ISBN-10: 0099526751

ISBN-13: 9780099526759

Edition: 2010

Authors: Brian Chikwava

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When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and an email address for his childhood friend, Shingi.Finessing his way through immigration, he spends a few restless weeks as the very unwelcome guest in his cousin’s home before tracking down Shingi in a Brixton squat.In this astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize winner Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a refugee.This is the story of a stranger in a strange land – one of the thousands of illegal Zimbabwean immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide.From the first line the language fizzes with energy,…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication date: 4/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.80" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Brian Chikwava is among the exciting new generation of writers emerging from the African continent. His short story Seventh Street Alchemy was awarded the 2004 Caine Prize for African Writing.He has been a Charles Pick fellow at the University of East Anglia, and lives in London.