This choice of fiction and history reflects my own obsession with the country’s national and personal strugglesThere are many more than 10 noteworthy books approximately Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean writers of the last decade alone,particularly Nozipo Maraire, Alexandra Fuller, and Irene Sabatini,Bryony Rheam, NoViolet Bulawayo, or Peter Godwin,Ignatius Mabasa, Brian Chikwava, or Wonder Guchu,Christopher Mlalazi, Tendai Huchu, and Memory Chirere and Togara Muzanenhamo could be part of this list,as could the American James Kilgore. The prolific triumvirate of Charles Mungoshi, Ndabezinhle Sigogo and John Eppel could each believe a top 10 list of just their own work.
The fiction and non-fiction titles in this list echo my own obsession with the history of Zimbabwe, or,most particularly, its social history, and a subject in which my novel The Book of Memory is steeped. I am particularly interested in the external and internal struggles reflected in these books,struggles both national and personal whether over land ownership and national identity or the individual’s right to self-determination.
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Source: theguardian.com