Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories
by Andrew Chatora
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Pub Date 1 Feb 2024 | Archive Date 15 Apr 2024
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Description
Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories
In his fourth literary offering, Andrew Chatora gives us eleven stories written in a wide range of settings and painting the lives of Zimbabweans from different walks of life. From the impenetrable Harare prison to the working class Mutare and its domain of shebeen queens to suburban Harare and a politically charged United Kingdom in a post Brexit world, Chatora takes the reader on a grand tour of outrage. Notwithstanding the shifts in scene and setting, these stories have one pervasive theme in common – they capture the suffocation and desperation of Zimbabwe and her Diaspora and fully describe the precariousness of living in environments that are increasingly hostile.
"Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories" transcends the grass is never greener perspective with a nuanced interrogation of the socio-political realities of its characters. Chatora fashions a diverse cast of characters whose complexities and eccentricities evoke the utmost in us.
‘‘Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories affords Andrew Chatora to tell his story with more urgency than before. Chatora roars into centre stage with this charmed confluence of the novella, the essay, the treatise, the short story and the vignette. Here is a collection to startle you out of your complacency.’’
Memory Chirere, University of Zimbabwe
A Note From the Publisher
Engaging Storytelling
Cultural Richness
Social Commentary
Global Relevance
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Advance Praise
PRAISE and REVIEWS FOR
Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories
‘‘Chatora writes exceptionally well on Black identity and Black experience and what it means to try and walk straight in a crooked white world.’’
DAVID CHASUMBA
(2023) NAMA Prize winner and author of The Mad Man of First Street and Other Short Stories
‘‘Inside Harare Alcatraz collection of short stories offers a fine assembly of different tones, voices, and settings, giving a view of a Zimbabwe and her Diaspora that is multifaceted.’’
TARIRO NDORO
(2020) Outstanding Poetry Book Winner – National Arts Council of Zimbabwe
Author of Agringada: Like a Gringa, Like a Foreigner
‘‘Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories successfully shows the decay in Zimbabwean morals and paints the stark picture of desperation that Zimbabwe’s citizens and emigrants experience.’’
NAOMI WHEELER
‘‘Sensuous and intelligent, insightful and riveting. Andrew Chatora’s debut short story collection confirms the promise he showed in his three novels. This is a beautifully written collection about family, home and what it means living away from home in a world where one is considered as the other.’’
SARAH CALNAN
‘‘Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories affords Andrew Chatora to tell his story with more urgency than before. Chatora roars into centre stage with this charmed confluence of the novella, the essay, the treatise, the short story and the vignette. Here is a collection to startle you out of your complacency.’’
MEMORY CHIRERE, UNIVERSITY of ZIMBABWE
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781637462348 |
| PRICE | £14.61 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 190 |
