Written in magic realism, the novella exposes the absurdities of life, its injustices and hypocrisy. A corpse of an old man being taken for burial converses with an unborn child trying to persuade him not to be born in a cruel world.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 7 mm
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978-1-77921-335-8 (9781779213358)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
STEPHEN A. MPASHI was born on 3rd December 1920 in Kasama and attended early education at Kayambi Mission before training as a priest at Lubushi Seminary. The white colonial authorities identified his writerly talents and sponsored him to England for courses in creative writing at Exeter University. Later he worked at the Ministry of Education for many years and later became director of the Northern Rhodesia Publishing Bureau. He died in 1998 after penning more than seventeen books. His works especially this book have attracted scholarly studies and are still in print.
