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ISBN/EAN: 9781770105942
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Paperback

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Sue Nyathi, geboren und aufgewachsen in Bulawayo, ist seit der High-School, wo sie begann Gedichte zu schreiben, der Literatur verfallen. Da in Simbabwe nicht die Möglichkeit bestand dieses Fach zu studieren, fand sie sich bald mit einem Master im Bereich Finanzen wieder. Bis 2018 war sie Research Analyst bei einer Maklerfirma. Sie hat zwei Romane veröffentlicht: The Polygamist (Logogog Publishers, 2012) und The GoldDiggers (Pan Macmillan, 2018). ** Sue Nyathi, born and raised in Bulawayo, has been an avid writer since high school where she wrote a lot of poetry. Because literature was not a subject one would study in Zimbabwe, she found herself reading towards a degree in Finance and later completed a Master’s Degree in the same field. Until May 2018, she worked for a stockbroking firm as a Research Analyst. She has published two novels so far: The Polygamist (Logogog Publishers, 2012) and The GoldDiggers (Pan Macmillan, 2018). Sue Nyathi was participating at the 2nd AFRICAN BOOK FESTIVAL BERLIN in 2019.

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It’s 2008 and the height of Zimbabwe’s economic demise. A group of passengers is huddled in a Toyota Quantum about to embark on a treacherous expedition to the City of Gold. Amongst them is Gugulethu, who is hoping to be reconciled with her mother; Dumisani, an ambitious young man who believes he will strike it rich, Chamunorwa and Chenai, twins running from their troubled past; and Portia and Nkosi, a mother and son desperate to be reunited with a husband and father they see once a year. .They have paid a high price for the dangerous passage to what they believe is a better life; an escape from the vicious vagaries of their present life in Bulawayo. In their minds, the streets of Johannesburg are paved with gold but they will have to dig deep to get close to any gold, dirtying themselves in the process. Told with brave honesty and bold description, the stories of the individual immigrants are simultaneously heart-breaking and heart-warming.

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