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200 10$aWhite gods black demons /$fDaniel Mandishona
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aAvondale, Harare $cWeaver Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (118 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-77922-087-1 
327   $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Author; Contents; 1. Smoke and Ashes; 2. Cities of Dust; 3. Kaffir Corn; 4. A Wasted Land; 5. The Time of Locusts; 6. A Secret Sin; 7. Blunt Force Trauma; 8. Sugar; 9. A Dirty Game; 10. Butternut Soup; Back Cover
330   $aIrony and humour have always been used to counter frustration, despair and to expose double standards. In these ten sharply polished stories, Mandishona explores the dark comedy that lies just beneath the surface of tragedy in Zimbabwean society in the last decade. His perceptions leave few untouched: politicians, new farmers, exiles, stranded queues and inflation that renders the currency worthless... Truth and morality are dispensable in a society where wealth is rewarded with respect, integrity marred by untruth, rumour displaces fact, and power is only interested in its own survival. Mandi
606   $aZimbabwean fiction (English)
606   $aZimbabwean literature (English)
615  0$aZimbabwean fiction (English)
615  0$aZimbabwean literature (English)
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