Chenjerai Hove

Bones

Novel about Zimbabwean woman struggling with marriage and ancestral memory

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Chenjerai Hove
Chenjerai Hove

Zimbabwean novelist and poet whose Bones, written in a style imitating the rhythms of Shona oral tradition, is one of the most celebrated works of Zimbabwean literature. His fiction bore witness to the suffering of ordinary Zimbabweans under Mugabe.

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