An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
by:
Petina Gappah (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780865479302 (0865479305)
Publish date: June 8th 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Stories from Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah's debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, which won the Guardian First Book Award for 2009.Read by Lucian Msamati.
A collection of short stories by a Zimbabwean woman who is a lawyer living now in Geneva. The setting, in Zimbabwe, immediately invites comparisons with Chimimanda Adichie from Nigeria — but it lacks that immediacy and intimacy somehow. 3 1/2*
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