ISBN 9780797425408
ePub ISBN 9780797444980
Pages 144
Dimensions 216 x 140 mm
Published 2003
Publisher amabooks Publishers, Zimbabwe
Formats Paperback, eBook

Short Writings from Bulawayo

edited by Jane Morris

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.

Some of the contributors are John Eppel, Christopher Mlalazi, Terence Ranger, and Derek Huggins.

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"Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s cultural capital. And the recently published Short Writings from Bulawayo by ’amaBooks reaffirms that status."

Weekend Tribune, Zimbabwe

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