Book details
  • An Elegy for Easterly See large image

    An Elegy for Easterly (Paperback) By (author) Petina Gappah

    05

    Free worldwide delivery

    Currently unavailable

    We can notify you when this item is back in stock and you don't have to register

    | Add to wishlist
    Also available in...
    Paperback $11.82
    Hardback $19.16

    Short Description for An Elegy for EasterlyAims to bring us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe's regime whilst also battling issues common to people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams and the yearning for something to anchor them to life.
    Full description

Other books

Other people who viewed this bought | Other books in this category
Showing items 1 to 10 of 10

 

Full description | Reviews | Bibliographic data
Showing 1 to 1 of 1 results

Reviews for An Elegy for Easterly

Write a review
  • Top review

    Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 20105

    The Orwell Prize 'Short stories can be one of the most effective forms of political writing, carving out memorable facets of a situation or place - in this case Zimbabwe - and making from these individual glimpses an unforgettable whole. Petina Gappah's elegantly crafted and moving stories reveal the human cost of political events. Whether it is the widow of a minister observing others at his graveside or a young woman hearing stories of a dream life in America from a friend who becomes increasingly like a fantasy herself or a coffin maker who is also dance champion - each conveys, often with wry humour, the tragedy and absurdity of life dominated by inflation, AIDS and brutal government control.'

    The Orwell Prize is Britain's most prestigious prize for political writing. The Book Prize judges for 2010 were Jonathan Heawood (director, English PEN), Andrew Holgate (literary editor, Sunday Times) and Francine Stock (writer and broadcaster). by The Orwell Prize

Write a review
Showing 1 to 1 of 1 results