House of Stone by Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa

House of Stone

In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo's teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing,...
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Author: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
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Language: English
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House of Stone by Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa

House of Stone

¥4,821

House of Stone

¥4,821
Author: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo's teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing, and the Mlambos fear the worst. Their enigmatic lodger, Zamani, seems to be their last, best hope for finding him. Since Bukhosi's disappearance, Zamani has been preternaturally helpful: hanging missing posters in downtown Bulawayo, handing out fliers to passersby, and joining in family prayer vigils with the flamboyant Reverend Pastor from Agnes's Blessed Anointings church. It's almost like Zamani is part of the family...

But almost isn't nearly enough for Zamani. He ingratiates himself with Agnes and feeds alcoholic Abednego's addiction, desperate to extract their life stories and steep himself in borrowed family history, as keenly aware as any colonialist or power-mad despot that the one who controls the narrative inherits the future. As Abednego wrestles with the ghosts of his past and Agnes seeks solace in a deep-rooted love, their histories converge and each must confront the past to find their place in a new Zimbabwe.

Pulsing with wit, seduction, and dark humor, House of Stone is a sweeping epic that spans the fall of Rhodesia through Zimbabwe's turbulent beginnings, exploring the persistence of the oppressed in a young nation seeking an identity, but built on forgetting.



Author: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/29/2019
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393635423


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2018 pg. 66
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2018 pg. 60
Foreword 10/19/2018
Publishers Weekly 10/29/2018
Booklist 12/01/2018 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2018

About the Author
Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa: - Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, winner of the 2014 Herman Charles Bosman Prize, is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is a fiction editor at the Bare Life Review, a journal of refugee and immigrant literature based in San Francisco. A native of Zimbabwe, she has lived in South Africa and the US and has been invited to give public lectures at Oxford University and the Nordic Africa Institute.

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