A time of turbulence and turmoil is illustrated through the coming of age of Benjamin Tichafa, a young man torn between two worlds, between two sets of beliefs, between old and new.

Harvest of Thorns (African Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Chinodya, Shimmer

British & Irish

Heinemann

A collection of Zimbabwean stories following the transition from childhood to adult life.

Can We Talk and Other Stories (African Writers Series)

A sharply-perceived evocation of changing life in rural Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s.

Dew in the Morning (Mambo Writers Series. English Section)

A collection of Zimbabwean stories following the transition from childhood to adult life. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life are undermined as the characters grow up, reflecting the decline in post-independence Zimbabwe.

Can we talk, and other stories

Action & Adventure

Baobab

Chairman of Fools explores the plight of Farai Chari, a supposedly successful writer, professor and self-acclaimed artist, living in an African culture in which tradition weighs heavy and middle class aspirations are crude. Farai yearns for a world in which men and women can freely associate with one another and gratify their passions without moral chastisement.

Chairman of Fools

Contemporary

Weaver Press

The 1990 Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize voted Harvest of Thorns the winner in the Best Book category.
Harvest of Thorns tells the story of Benjamin Tichafa who grows up in Rhodesia in the 1960s. From a conservative, religious family, but exposed to the heady ideas of the black nationalist movements, the young student is pulled in different directions. Isolated and troubled at boarding school, he is provoked into leaving, making his way to Mozambique, and joining the freedom fighters. There, in the crucible of a bitter civil war of liberation, the young man develops into manhood. Returning, hardened, at independence, he feels that little has changed, not least within his own family circumstances, and asks himself what it means to be free in the new Zimbabwe.

Harvest of Thorns

Literary

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