Waiting for the Rain

by Charles Mungoshi

Overview

The award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi is recognised in Africa, and internationally, as one of the continent's most powerful writers today. This early novel deals with the pain and dislocation of the clash of the old and new ways - the educated young man determined to go overseas, and the elders of the family believing his duty is to stay and head the family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780949932020
Publisher:	Zimbabwe Publishing House
Publication date:	09/05/2000
Series:	Zph Writers Series , #1
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Charles Mungoshi was born in 1947 in the Chivhu area of Zimbabwe. He was a novelist, playwright, and founding figure of modern Zimbabwean literature.

After graduating from the University of Zimbabwe, Mungoshi worked at the Literature Bureau as an editor and at Zimbabwe Publishing House until 1986. He returned to university as a Writer in Residence and continued to work as a freelance writer, scriptwriter and editor.

Mungoshi was twice awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa) in 1988 and 1998 for his short story collections, The Setting Sun and the Rolling World and Walking Still.

Two of his novels, Waiting for the Rain (1975) and Ndiko kupindana kwa mazuva (1975) received International PEN awards.

Mungoshi died in 2019.

Editorial Reviews

Zimbabwe's finest and most versatile writer” —Petina Gappah

“The influence of Mungoshi's work cuts across generations, continents and cultures” —Professor Arthur Mutambara, former Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister

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