Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone is One Read book of the month.
One Read is a mobile application, by Nigeria’s Sterling Bank and Ouida Books. It aims at creating a community of readers by promoting writers, publishers and other players in the African book industry. Previous book that have been read are Travellers by Helon Habila, We, The Scarred by Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Not My Time to Die by Yolande Mukagasana, Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah, PrinceofMonkeys by Nnamdi Ehirim, Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Dreams and Assorted Nightmares, Odafe Atogun’s Taduno’s Song, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai’s AnAbundanceofScorpions, Ishmael Beah’s Little Family, and Zukiswa Wanner’s Men of the South.
House of Stone follows “the lives of Abednego and Agnes Mlambo whose teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing. Their enigmatic lodger, Zamani, seems to be their last, best hope for finding him. Pulsing with wit, seduction, and dark humour, House of Stone is a sweeping epic that spans the fall of Rhodesia through Zimbabwe’s turbulent beginnings, exploring the persistence of the oppressed in a young nation seeking an identity, but built on forgetting. This is a novel of considerable power that explores identity at the personal, social, and national level.”
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