Rotten Row: Petina Gappah - Softcover

Gappah, Petina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571324193 ISBN 13: 9780571324194

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Gappah's short stories depict contemporary Zimbabwe as a place of both reassuring normality and unnerving extremes. She exposes the venality, criminality and hypocrisy, but always with mordant humour. Author: Rebecca Rose Source: Financial Times Books of the Year

Intelligent, witty and incisive. Source: The Times

Does for Harare now what Dickens did for Victorian London, with lethal comic relish and rage. Author: Helen Simpson Source: Observer 'Books of the Year'

Stories that throb with life and meaning. Source: Stylist

Gappah's narratives have a resilient lightness and bounce. Author: Phil Baker Source: Sunday Times

Gappah's writing is intelligent, witty and incisive. Author: Kate Saunders Source: The Times

Book Description:

Petina Gappah returns with another collection of stories, exploring modern Zimbabwe

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571324193
• ISBN 13: 9780571324194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352