Denne boka ble registrert som en reisende bok av Askeladda. "Så lenge det fremdeles finnes bøker jeg ikke har lest, er livet verdt å leve", fritt sitert etter Göran Tunstrøm.

Paperback, 100 grams. Chenjerai Hove was born in Zimbabwe in 1956. He has had a varied career, which has included teaching litterature at a secondary school, editing for Zimbabwean publishing houses and working for a cultural news agency covering the SADCC counties. He is currently Writer in Residence at the University of Zimbabwe.

He described his first reading of Chinua Achebe´s "Things fall apart"as "like meeting my own face in the mirrror for the first time". His own writing dates from 1981. His book Bones won the Noma Award in 1989. In addition to his work in English, Hove has pblished a novel and many poems in Shona.

Shadows is an evocative extended prose poem, in which the tragedy of a Zimbabwean farming family unfolds against the historical backdrop of the war for liberation. Hove writes of Shadows: " it was born many years ago when I saw two young people, lovers, opt for death instead of life." Sunday Mail, Harare: "it is a quietly powerful narrative. Here is an unforgettable saga that will resist the shadows of time."

Boka inngår i utfordringen Alle verdens bøker. Zimbabwe. Skal leses 2012/2013

A strong and sad bok! Very well written.

I specially found the parts where mans relations to the earth, the soil they growed and their relations to/respect for their anscestors, quite beautiful.
Even if the Word beautiful seems wrong to use, in a book written in the shadows of a liberation war and the afterglove of the war.

"The women and the men felt the warmth of the soil in the cracked soles of their feet, in their palms,as they weeded the fields. The soil stuck to their feet and palms, like brown patches on their skin. They did not mind. It was life.

Johana's father breathed warm air and felt it was the gift of this new land. He felt the warmth of the soil in his heart. The soil too felt his presence in its new heartbeat of ploughs and planting, harvesting and ploughing.

There were hard days too."

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All my good wishes goes with the book: many happy readings in may!

Thanks a lot for sending me this book and for the nice postcard :)

A book full of strong feelings and sad memories. The tragedy of the family brings you to another harsh and cruel way of life.

Sent to the winner of book, chocolate and tea sweepstake! Enjoy the reading!

Thanks for the book. I didn't know about this author before, but lately, I have been slowly making my way through African litterature. I think this one will compliment nicely my other reads.
Thanks also for all the other things in the parcel!

An interesting book, written in a very poetical and lyrical tones, which made me discover an area and culture I had very little idea of. But I had a very hard time following what was happening, with all the jumping around in time.

I'll leave the book by the hotel (Villa Santi) pool when we will check-out.