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Mungoshi, Charles The Setting Sun and the Rolling World: Selected Short Stories By Charles Mungoshi
Beacon Press 1989 0807083216 / 9780807083215 Trade Paperback Very Good +
A photo of this book is available. Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean (NO tears). 202 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. 1 page shows writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO tears inside book. Publishers Weekly: The great gift of these tales from Zimbabwe is their refusal to admit cultural barriers. Mungoshi's american title.pk ( Waiting for the Rain ) landscapes are almost entirely foreign, but his people are as recognizable and accessible as one's own neighbors. Protagonists may be convinced of the magic properties of their lion-skin belts, their parents may burn the roots of plants for good luck, but here these rituals seem no more extraordinary than, say, masses for the dead or prayers offered to saints. Only modernization is exotic--Western education, European employers. Elders react to their children's defections from ancestral ways with a piercingly familiar mix of anger and compassion; the promise of ``progress'' entices and betrays youth into urban poverty. Neither tradition nor technology shields these characters--families disintegrate in the wake of marital infidelities; hardships drive brothers to alcoholism; lovers deceive one another.
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