This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Emmanuel Sigauke
- ISBN10: 0797456600
- ISBN13: 9780797456600
The stories in Mukomas Marriage and Other Stories capture the lives of Zimbabwean men and the women they marry, and the lives of women and the men they fall in love with, each revealing the complexities of cultural and gender expectations against the backdrop of a changing country war in the 1970s, political uncertainty in the 1980s and economic structural adjustment in the 1990s . Fati sets out to tell Mukomas story, but ends up also telling his wives stories. By telling his brothers story, and that of his women, he ends up telling his own story. Fati is a new and interesting protagonist in Zimbabwean literature with a voice at times innocent, yet increasingly incisive, humorous and engaging. These stories are deeply personal yet universal in their treatment of human relationships, ambitions, and misplaced cultural and gender expectations. Whether he is telling the story of his brothers first marriage, or remembers his brothers fights at a Parents Day event at Mhototi School, whether he recalls the night Mukoma took him to see a new baby in the alleyways of Glen View, Fati renders these stories with a measured, composed voice which doesn`t fail to delight with its unusual humour.
