In these darkly luminous stories, fathers and sons, lovers and rivals, migrants and returnees move through a Zimbabwe suspended between memory and reinvention, and through a diaspora that promises escape yet delivers its own reckonings.
A disgraced screenwriter hears his deported son's name whispered in a crowded bar and must decide what it means to say, Here I am, my son. A celebrated technologist confronts the cost of power, autonomy and revenge in a society that still doubts her womanhood. Pumpkins grown on cursed soil follow their owners across continents, carrying something ancestral and unspeakable into suburban England. A former torture victim offers mercy to the man who destroyed him, only to discover the cycle has not ended but merely changed hands.
Across townships and film festivals, police stations and immigration offices, brothels and corporate launch events, these stories interrogate masculinity, exile, faith, state violence and the fragile inheritance between generations. The past is never past. Power mutates. Love falters. Sons wander. Fathers return, or fail to.
This collection examines what remains when status collapses, when nations shift, and when private grief collides with public history. It asks, with unflinching clarity: what do we pass on, and what do we choose to break?
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"I like how the story connects the 70s and now, a way of reading the past through the present" - Emmanuel Sigauke, "Musodza knows the value of creating a cyclical story, but he also understands that themes and time can be cyclical, too. ...The malaise of the past becomes the terror of the present, and good men easily become bad when the situation demands. Musodza's skill is to foster empathy within the reader for Stanley, but also for the hitchhiker, and then to demolish the feelings for both. In the end, there are no winners, and yesterday's dog is tomorrow's master. And of course he wants his own dog, too." - Damian Kelleher "The metaphor is apt and prompts the reader to reflect on the nature of humanity. Who is the animal when one human is torturing another? The victim who is called a dog, or the one who beats the victim like a dog?" - M.G. Moore "Masimba Musodza's characters live in a morally gray world where the debate about whether the ends justify the means rages on. Lots of little details that, upon a second or third reading, take on a deeper significance. - Alex Brown外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
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