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| Literary Evening by Weaver Press |
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| News - Pamberi Trust |
| Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:47 |
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** YOU ARE INVITED ** To a Literary Evening by Weaver Press with Readings by Zimbabwean writers from their new collections of short stories “THE TREK AND OTHER STORIES” - Lawrence Hoba “WHITE GODS, BLACK DEMONS” - Daniel Mandishona (See more below) And a discussion led by Fanuel Jongwe and Murray McCartney “BOOK-BUYING & BOOK-MARKETING IN ZIMBABWE” Thu 21 Jan, 5.30-7pm The Book Café, Fife Ave / 6th St, Harare (Upstairs parking) FREE, ALL WELCOME! Supported by Pamberi Trust White Gods Black Demons - Daniel Mandishona Irony and humour have always been used to counter frustration, despair and to expose double standards. In these ten sharply polished stories, Mandishona explores the dark comedy that lies just beneath the surface of tragedy in Zimbabwean society in the last decade. His perceptions leave few untouched: politicians, new farmers, exiles, stranded queues and inflation that renders the currency worthless… Truth and morality are dispensable in a society where wealth is rewarded with respect, integrity marred by untruth, rumour displaces fact, and power is only interested in its own survival. Mandishona holds a mirror up to reality and without equivocation asks us to look at what is real: the likeness or the distortion and what it is we want to see. (http://www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com/literature.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&category_id=1&product_id=88) The Trek and Other Stories - Lawrence Hoba For baba farming means little more than erecting a sign boldly proclaiming ‘B. J. Magudu, Black Commercial Farmer’, as the new Baas at farm 24; after which he is happy to leave the farming to mhama, who has alwaysworked the fields back in their village. Much has been said over the last decade about the forcible eviction of the white farmers in Zimbabwe, less about the plight of the farm-workers, while the voice of the new settlers, and militia manipulated for a cause, has remained virtually unheard. This short but powerful anthology, The Trek and Other Stories, provides sensitive and illuminating, wry and comic perspectives on those people who occupied the land believing their future was golden, only for it to crumble to dust and disillusion. (http://www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com/literature.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=90&category_id=1) - Pamberi Trust The Book Cafe & Mannenberg Jazz Club Fife Avenue mall (upstairs), cnr Fife Ave/6th Street Harare, Zimbabwe Tel: 263- 4- 253239 www.zimbabwearts.org |