Harare Voices and Beyond

<p><em>Harare Voices and Beyond</em> takes us on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche. </p><p>─Sue Quainton Bicester United Kingdom</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>A drunken confession exposes a dark family secret. Rhys appears to have it all. A white Zimbabwean living in affluent Borrowdale Brooke area he gets involved in a freak traffic accident. Therein unfolds a confession which unleashes a cathartic chain of events in the family's hitherto well-choreographed life a family whose lived experience becomes microcosmic and an eye opener to Zimbabwe's seemingly closed forgotten white minority community. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Through offering a rare insight into lives of the white community in post-independence Zimbabwe <em>Harare Voices and Beyond </em>explores the dynamics of love money family feuds identity politics false philanthropy and respectability inter-alia. Two families' lives are inexorably linked in this fast-paced narrative which not only traverses multiple locations but also juxtaposes the seedy underbelly of Harare with the leafy northern suburbs and little-known Marina Thompson from UK Durham University all appear linked in a drama-infused finale that will shock and numb the reader.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>About the Author:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span></span>Andrew Chatora is a Zimbabwean novelist essayist and short-story writer based in Bicester England. He grew up in Mutare Zimbabwe and moved to England in 2002. His debut novella <em>Diaspora Dreams </em>(2021) was approvingly received and nominated for the National Arts Merit Awards (2022)<em>.</em> His second book <em>Where the Heart Is</em> was published in the same year to considerable acclaim. Chatora's forthcoming book <em>Born Here But Not in My Name</em> is a brave humorous and psychologically penetrating portrait of post-Brexit Britain. Chatora is noted for his acerbic and honest depiction of the migrant experience. Heavily influenced by his own experience as a black English teacher in the United Kingdom Chatora probes multi-cultural relationships identity politics blackness migration citizenship and nationhood.</p>