Harare Voices and Beyond

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Harare Voices and Beyond takes us on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche. </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>─Sue Quainton Bicester United Kingdom</em></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through offering a rare insight into lives of the white community in post-independence Zimbabwe </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Harare Voices and Beyond </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>About the Author:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Diaspora Dreams </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2021) was approvingly received and nominated for the National Arts Merit Awards (2022)</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> His second book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Where the Heart Is</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was published in the same year to considerable acclaim. Chatora's forthcoming book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born Here But Not in My Name</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 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.</span></p><p></p>