Muzungu: A Rhodesian Testament - Brossura

Madocks, Rod

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1739816420 ISBN 13: 9781739816421

Casa editrice: Dogberry Ltd, 2022

Riassunto

Winner of the Rubery Prize for Non Fiction, Muzungu is a vivid memoir of growing up in a time and place it has become taboo to speak of — Rhodesia in the twilight of empire. An elegy upon a vanished life and people, it is a reflection upon a childhood mainly spent deep in the backcountry of what is now Zambia as the son of an adventurous British official and his enigmatic wife. It is a story of being raised by and among black Africans, the best of whom are the people you admire most in the world, only to be shipped off to boarding school in England. Muzungu, slang for a white person across swathes of Africa, is said to mean ‘a wanderer’ who strays over the land without purpose, or one who 'spins around' as if bewildered. This poetic memoir charts a struggle to transcend that condition and find one's own way at last through writing.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Dogberry Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1739816420
• ISBN 13: 9781739816421
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 371
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile