Dear Elizabeth, I admit I was a bit reluctant to read your novel We need new names (2013). It covered all the topics typically considered “African” by…… Read more “it’s the wound that knows the texture of the pain”
Month: August 2014
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, born 12 October 1981) is a Zimbabwean writer. She completed her college education in the US, studying at Kalamazoo Valley Community…… Read more “NoViolet Bulawayo”
What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking?
Dear Ali, The prologue of your novel There but for the (2011) is, simultaneously, a paper folding and a story within another story. There, we are asked…… Read more “What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking?”