The History of Man
Book description
From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Book 2 in the City of Kings trilogy, including her multiple award-winning debut novel The Theory of Flight
Set in a southern African country that is never named, this powerful tale of human fallibility—told with empathy, generosity, and a light touch—is…Why read it?
1 author picked The History of Man as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m in awe of this author’s trilogy of award-winning novels about Zimbabwe’s colonial history. Haunting and hypnotic, they blend magical realism, epic history, and social satire. Although they form a series with some recurring characters, all are standalone reads.
Her first, The Theory of Flight, won South Africa’s biggest literary award. The second, recommended here, is a sustained act of grace in which the author climbs into the skin of an alpha white male Rhodesian, Emil Coetzee, whose ambitions lead to his running the doomed colony’s sinister secret police. It humanizes him without excusing him in an imaginative tour…
From Helen's list on Historical novels by Southern African women.
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