"La historia que me has pedido que te cuente no comienza con la conmovedora fealdad de la muerte de Lloyd. Comienza un día de agosto de hace mucho tiempo, cuando el sol me abrasaba la cara y yo tenía...

Una novela épica y profundamente humana en el corazón de África.Ganadora del premio Chautauqua 2020Uno de los mejores libros de 2019 según NPR«Fascinante, hermosa y profundamente imaginativa, es una novela...

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 2020 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: Petina Gappah's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is'engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative.' (Yaa Gyasi) This is the story of the...

A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour brings unexpected...

In her accomplished new story collection, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in Zimbabwe to explore the causes and effects of crime, and to meditate on the nature...

The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's...

Dans l’Afrique du xixe siècle, des femmes et des hommes ont  transporté le corps du Docteur Livingstone, explorateur et  missionnaire, sur plus de deux mille cinq cents kilomètres, afin  que sa dépouille...

“Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative” (Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing), this epic novel about the explorer David Livingstone and the extraordinary group of Africans who carry his body across...

« L’histoire que vous m’avez demandé de vous raconter ne commence pas avec la mort, d’une hideur déplorable, de Lloyd. Elle commence par une journée d’août, il y a bien longtemps, quand j’avais neuf ans,...