An Elegy for Easterly

Name: An Elegy for Easterly
Author: Petina Gappah

by Petina Gappah

Interconnected stories of Zimbabwean women enduring poverty and displacement

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Petina Gappah

Zimbabwean lawyer and novelist whose debut collection An Elegy for Easterly won the Guardian First Book Award. Her fiction satirizes Zimbabwean political life with biting wit. She is one of the most celebrated contemporary African writers.

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