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Hope Deferred

Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives

Peter Orner Annie Holmes Brian Chikwava

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English
Haymarket Books
17 January 2023
Hope Deferredasks the question: How did Zimbabwe, a country with so much promise-a stellar education system, a growing middle class, a sophisticated economic infrastructure, a liberal constitution, and an independent judiciary-come so close to collapse? In their own words, Zimbabweans tell their stories of losing their homes, land, livelihoods, and families as a direct result of political violence. They describe being tortured in detention, firebombed at work, or beaten up or raped to ""punish"" votes for the opposition. Those forced to flee to neighboring countries recount their escapes: cutting through fences, swimming across crocodile-infested rivers, and entrusting themselves to human smugglers. This book includes. Zimbabweans of every age, class, and political conviction-from farm laborers and academics to doctors and artists-ordinary people surviving the fragmentation of a once-thriving nation.

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Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 139mm,  Width: 209mm, 
ISBN:   9781642595437
ISBN 10:   1642595438
Series:   Voice of Witness
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter Orner is the author of two novels (Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo), two short story collections (Esther Stories and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge), and editor of two books of non-fiction/oral history (Underground America and Hope Deferred). He is co-host of a radio program on KWMR/ Point Reyes, CA called Casual Footsteps with John McCrea and co-owner of a bookstore called the Book Exchange. Annie Holmes was born in Zambia and raised in Zimbabwe. She has taught high school, run a book editing department, made documentaries and television, and led communications for feminist organizing and health research in the U.S. and UK. She now lives in London, but Zimbabwe is always home. Brian Chikwava is a London-based Zimbabwean writer and author of the novel Harare North, which won the Outstanding First Creative Published Work category in Zimbabwe's National Arts Merit Awards and was also longed listed for the George Orwell Prize. He is a previous winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and a former Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Chikwava is currently working on his second novel.

Reviews for Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives

“Hope Deferred might be the most important publication to have come out of Zimbabwe in the past thirty years.” —Alexandra Fuller, Harper’s Magazine


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