Rotten Row edition by Petina Gappah Literature Fiction eBooks
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In her accomplished new story collection, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in Zimbabwe to explore the causes and effects of crime, and to meditate on the nature of justice. Rotten Row represents a leap in artistry and achievement from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly and The Book of Memory. With compassion and humour, Petina Gappah paints portraits of lives aching for meaning to produce a moving and universal tableau.
Rotten Row edition by Petina Gappah Literature Fiction eBooks
As can be expected from a collection, some of the stories take you breathless from one page to the next, and to the end. Flying on a palpable, alive energy. Some not as much. Woven through almost all of the stories is an aliveness that can only come from one who lived them. Effortless humour, satire, and a refreshing air-stream of all sorts of emotion. The stories remain written on the canvass of your memory. I am not sure though how much of the energy that carries the stories is lost on those who, unlike me, might not understand some of the Shona words, context and meaning.Product details
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Rotten Row edition by Petina Gappah Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Rotten Row, by Petina Gappah is a collection of short stories has a clear geographical localization a main street in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, crossed among others by Robert Mugabe street, in the honor of the president in office since 1987. It is also the place where the Magistrate Court is situated, the delivery and interpretation of justice being one of the recurrent topics of the stories. Petina Gappah herself is a lawyer by profession.
Each story starts with a Biblical sequence, also translated in an original dialect. Through the stories, expressions or even full sentences, not all of them translated, are inserted, adding more genuine ambiance. The characters from one story may appear in other story too, mirror reflections of a life where the individual can hardly survive and exist beyond the context of the big numbers. Either it is the family, the local church, the society or the crowded bus, the humans of Rotten Row are rarely alone. When they leave the country, they will seek the same comfort of the groups, mostly virtually, through the virtual forums.
Everyone is longing for something, trying to achieve their aims, but achieving the aims reveals a tragi-comical mixture of beliefs. The author is not condescending when tells the story of the search for magical remedies for health, wealth or kindling the flame of a fading love by using baboon piss. The story is told with the sharp mindfulness of the observer, wrapping the characters into their humanity. The reader should expect to encounter deep cruelty and indifference, corrupt rapacious bureaucrats and policemen, shameless and vane NGO activists and acts of justice who aren't right. From a story to another one gets caught into the net of facts and stories and you can hardly want to go out. Rotten Row stays with you long time after the book is over.
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Excellent writing
A fascinating book, rich in humanity.
This is a very good book. Well written. Petina is a talented author!
A truly excellent collection of short stories, with some characters appearing in multiple stories, set in today's Zimbabwe.
As usual exceptional intuition from Gappah. Her tales lightly weave flawlessly and tie up everything that is wrong in/ with modern day Zimbabwe. Still the content remains light on the surface with the element of satire. I thoroughly enjoyed this read. My favorite quote the only country this side of Africa that claims to be a sovereign and yet it uses an international currency.
As can be expected from a collection, some of the stories take you breathless from one page to the next, and to the end. Flying on a palpable, alive energy. Some not as much. Woven through almost all of the stories is an aliveness that can only come from one who lived them. Effortless humour, satire, and a refreshing air-stream of all sorts of emotion. The stories remain written on the canvass of your memory. I am not sure though how much of the energy that carries the stories is lost on those who, unlike me, might not understand some of the Shona words, context and meaning.
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