<p>It is New Year in Bulawayo, and anybody who is anybody is out celebrating. Hatchings, with an introduction by Khombe Mangwanda, was chosen by Professor Anthony Chennells in the Times Literary Supplement as his choice for the most significant book to have come out of Africa. The story is simple. In a sentence it can be described as a love story centered on a young couple who discover the true power of love amid the social, economic and moral decay that threatens to swallow their love and everything else. But to say Hatchings is merely a love story would be criminal. It is more than that. Hatchings is a story about Bulawayo, about Zimbabwe, about corruption and cultural decay. In Hatchings John Eppel spares no one. With his sharp and yet witty pen he exposes corruption and pokes fun at those that are abusing power and this means literally everyone. Rich, poor, white, black, Indian, foreigner or local. - Raisedon Baya, Sunday News, Zimbabwe</p>

Hatchings

Literature & Fiction

Eppel, John

Literary

amaBooks Publishers

<p>White Man Crawling is a collection of short stories and poems by the award winning Bulawayo writer John Eppel. His stories are uncomfortably funny; his poems uncomfortably sad. His stories speak first to all of us, then to his own quirky nature; his poems speak first to himself and to those few who know him nearly, and then to all of us. For more than forty years John Eppel has been a unique double-voice in the annals of Zimbabwean literature: the satirist and the lyricist.</p>

White Man Crawling

World Literature

Ama Books

Together

Chingono, Julius

Poetry

State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry

History & Criticism

The Conversation Paperpress

D.G.G. Berry's The great north road: A novel

Humor & Satire

Carrefour

Together is a joint collection of stories and poems by two of Zimbabwe's most talented writers, Julius Chingono and John Eppel. Though they barely knew each other and lived in different settings, Chingono and Eppel are kindred souls. Each poem and story explores the culture of mankind in its every disaster and delight.

Together: Stories and Poems by Julius Chingono and John Eppel

Genre Fiction

UNO Press

The Boy Who Loved Camping

Pigeon Press

'When George J. George mistook his white Ford Escort for the moon, he knew his time was up.' When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, 'his pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.' When he backs his uninsured white Ford Escort into a brand new Mercedes Benz, the out-of-court settlement sees him giving up his house to the complainant, Beauticious Nyamayakanuna, and becoming her domestic servant. Through the prism of this engaging post-colonial role reversal, and spiced with George's lessons on Shakespeare, John Eppel draws down the curtain on one particular white man in Africa. But before it's time to go, George will delight us with the antics of his literature classes; his various arrests - all timed to coincide with the police chief's need for help with essays on Hamlet and A Grain of Wheat; his keen eye for flora and fauna; and the long trek back through the hundred years of his family's Zimbabwean past, as he returns an abandoned child to her home. Eppel has satirized the racial politics of southern Africa in many of his previous novels. In Absent: The English Teacher he turns his gaze inwards for a generous and richly rewarding parody of the land of his birth.

Absent. the English Teacher

Weaver Press

The giraffe man

Queillerie Publishers

Sonata for Matabeleland

Baobab Books

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