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by Valerie Tagwira
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Availability:In StockContributor:Valerie TagwiraPublish date:2020-03-27Pages:318
Language:EnglishPublisher:Weaver PressISBN-13:9781779223708ISBN-10:1779223706UPC:9781779223708Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Urban & Street Lit, LiterarySize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCXRHYJV41

Valerie Tagwira has a gift for capturing the mood of a social or political moment: its concerns, unease, compromises and hopes. So it is with her second novel, Trapped.

Trapped explores the lives of three characters: Unesu is a doctor, Cashleen trained as a journalist and Delta qualified as a chemical engineer. Unesu is employed, but his work exposes him to the deficiencies in the system every day as he faces the challenges of life and death. Each of the two young women, good friends, daunted by having their job applications repeatedly rejected, make moral and ethical compromises in order to find work, or at least an income that will pay their bills.

These three individuals provide the pivot around which the action unfolds, introducing the reader to people and situations that paint a vital picture of life in Harare at a time of crisis, when survival depends on courage, determination, friendship and humour.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Weaver PressISBN-13:9781779223708ISBN-10:1779223706UPC:9781779223708Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Urban & Street Lit, LiterarySize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCXRHYJV41
Tagwira, Valerie: - Valerie Tagwira is a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist who lives and works in Harare. The Uncertainty of Hope (Weaver Press, 2006, Jacana Media 2006), her first novel, won the National Arts Merit Award for Outstanding Fiction in 2008. Her short story 'The Journey' was published in the Caine Prize Anthology 2010. Her story 'Mainini Grace's Promise' was published in Women Writing Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2009) translated into Shona for the anthology Mazambuko (Weaver Press, 2011), included in the anthology, New Daughters of Africa (Myriad Editions 2018) and re-published in Windows into Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2019). 'The Way of Revenge', a short story, was published in Writing Mystery and Mayhem (Weaver Press, 2015).
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