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 Harare North - Brian Chikwava
Newest Review: ... of political allegations of individuals and families in Zimbabwe. The claustrophobic atmosphere in the squat is palapable, ... more  ... the power games between the characters petty and tense at the same time, the seedy squalor and the realities of the £2.45 an hour jobs ring very true. We laugh at the language, laugh at the jokes and laugh at the silliness, but the undercurrent of menace and despair is increasingly detectable.
The novel is told in the first-person by the never-named narrator, himself just about as unreliable as narrators get. He's in turns confident, cocky and manipulative; confused, disturbed and lost; menacing and frightening ...more |
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Harare North - Brian Chikwava: Lost Soldier (603 words)
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Harare North is a tale of a young Zimbabwean, a Mugabe supporter and an ex member of the youth militia who comes to London (Harare North of the title) to raise $5,000 needed for a bribe. After a few tense weeks in his cousin's house he moves to a squat in Brixton where his old friend Shingi lives with a few other Zimbabweans, including Alec who's supposed to have a great job in a Croydon shop (which turns out to be a BBC graft - a 'British buttock cleaning' job in a care home), and Tsitsi, a seventeen years old single mother who rents out her baby to other women intended on defrauding social services. Harare North deals with a wealth of issues, ... Read the complete review
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