Andrew Chatora
Auteur de Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories
Œuvres de Andrew Chatora
Where the Heart Is 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Zimbabwe
- Lieu de naissance
- Harare, Zimbabwe
- Lieux de résidence
- Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Courte biographie
- Andrew Chatora is a Zimbabwean novelist, essayist and short-story writer based in Bicester, England. He grew up in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and moved to England in 2002. His debut novella, Diaspora Dreams (2021), was approvingly received and nominated for the National Arts Merit Awards (2022). His second book, Where the Heart Is, was published in the same year to considerable acclaim. Chatora's forthcoming book, Born Here, But Not in My Name, is a brave, humorous and psychologically penetrating portrait of post-Brexit Britain. Chatora is noted for his acerbic and honest depiction of the migrant experience. Heavily influenced by his own experience as a black English teacher in the United Kingdom, Chatora probes multi-cultural relationships, identity politics, blackness, migration, citizenship and nationhood.
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Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.very much enjoyed the short stories.
All were well written and just the right amount of length to them.
All were well written and just the right amount of length to them.
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.First of all thank you for the signed book with a lovely comment. I applied for this book through early reviewers as I am interested in views and experience of Zimbabwe. I had an uncle (white) who moved to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in his early twenties during the 1960s with his wife and lived there until his death in 2022. I only met him a couple of times and found him to be an objectionable racist! The rest of my family and relatives are not like this at all, were anti-Brexit, pro-European, are Lib Dem/Labour voters and generally tolerant and kind to minorities of whatever sort. I myself am a woman and disabled and know prejudice and discrimination in this capacity. The stories varied in their appeal and ease of reading. The opening, titular story was engaging and interesting. The stories set in Britain were interesting in that they are spoken in a big city resident voice, a very different experience and quite alien to me as a rural living, white English person! This isn't to say I haven't come across horrible racism, indeed I have vicariously witnessed it first hand such as a doctor I worked with being stopped almost weekly by police because he was a young black man driving a Porche. I found "Fari's Last Smile" both interesting and moving and liked the dual setting of Britain and Zimbabwe of this story. This book is a really good way to learn more about life in a social science way rather than via a text book but if you are after an entertaining story then this won't be for you.… (plus d'informations)
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.A collection of short stories are almost always a mixed bag of chips and it`s the same this time as well. Some of the stories almost feel like a draft of a longer writing while others are fully immersive. I particularly loved the story of the Covid nurse.
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 21
- Popularité
- #570,576
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 13
- ISBN
- 2
I was not sure what to expect from this collection. Sadly, it was not for me. I don't think I am part of the target audience for this. Having said that, the topics are not beyond my experience, I lived and worked in Zambia and West Africa over many years.
The topics covered are important but, for me, were too direct. I felt bombarded. I wasn't expecting to be entertained by the stories but I failed to connect with the characters for the most part.… (plus d'informations)