Walking StillWinner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize. Charles Mungoshi is one of Africa's foremost creative writers - both for adults and children - and a past winner of The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. This new collection of short stories covers a range of characters and settings which portray people whose lives have been challenged by war and its aftermath, by changing cultural values, and by family commitments in a world that has lost its certitude. Relationships and locations are concrete, visual, cinematic. The stories question notions of value and responsibility. |
Contents
The Hare | 1 |
The Homecoming | 27 |
You have to Go that Far? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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