Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult FictionAn uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting proseIn 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled... (read more)