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- Short Writings from Bulawayo II
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: amabooks
summary
Short Writings from Bulawayo won the Literature in English category at the 2005 Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association awards. It is a book of stories, poems and non-fiction pieces that are evocative of Zimbabwe's second city and its rural surroundings. The collection from 23 contributors tells of many things: of family and friendship, or fear and death, or witches and spirits, of hunger and drought, of dreams and aspirations, of leaving home and leaving Zimbabwe, of queues and loneliness, of football and bicycles and of growing old and of love. A unifying theme of many of the stories and poems is loss - of innocence, of purpose, of love, of culture, of belonging, and of life.
Table of Contents
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- It’s His Who Wakes the Hare
- pp. 6-12
- My Dustbin
- p. 13
- Whirlwinds
- pp. 14-18
- Bathing with Tadpoles
- pp. 19-21
- Something about Tea
- pp. 22-28
- The Coming
- pp. 29-31
- Past State House
- pp. 32-33
- Crossing the Divide
- pp. 34-37
- Full Circle
- pp. 42-45
- Illuminating Flames
- pp. 46-47
- City Insomnia
- pp. 50-54
- Between Two Men
- pp. 55-57
- Our ‘Notre Dame’
- p. 58
- The Seekers
- pp. 59-65
- The Girl with the Stolen Virginity
- pp. 66-69
- Amainini Wendy
- pp. 81-84
- One for the Road
- pp. 89-96
- I’ll Fly Away
- pp. 98-101
- The Baboon
- p. 102
- The Anthill
- pp. 103-110
- Contributors
- pp. 111-116
Additional Information
ISBN
9780797443327
Related ISBN(s)
9780797428966
MARC Record
OCLC
647934357
Pages
124
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No