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House of stone: the true story of a family divided in war-torn Zimbabwe

By Christina , Aqui.;Hough , Nigel;Lamb

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers;Harper Perennial
ISBN
9780007323500, 0007323506
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1864019 bytes)
Pages
(xxx, 290, 16 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Farmers;Farmers--Zimbabwe;Political violence;PolitNigel;Aqui;Farmers -- Zimbabwe -- Biography;Women

Description

A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, received the news he was dreading – a crowd were at the gate demanding he surrender his home and land. To his horror, his family's much-loved nanny Aqui was at the head of the violent mob that then stole his homestead and imprisoned him in an outhouse By tracing the intertwined lives of Nigel and Aqui – rich and poor, white and black, master and maid – through intimate and moving interviews, Christina Lamb captures not just the source of a terrible conflict, but also her own conviction that there is still hope for one of Africa's most beautiful countries.

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