Petina Gappah – författare & böcker

Book of Memory

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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126 kr

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Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story os the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it?

Elegy for Easterly

AvPetina Gappah

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

(1)

126 kr

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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe.A woman in a township is surrounded by 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 riches; a politician's widow stands quietly by at her husband's funeral as his colleagues bury an empty casket.Petina Gappah's characters may have ordinary hopes and dreams, but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs half a million dollars - a country expected to have only four presidents in a hundred years. In this spirited debut, Gappah evokes the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe's regime whilst also battling issues common to all people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams, and the yearning for something to anchor them to life.

Elegy for Easterly

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Engelska, 2009

120 kr

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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 riches; a politician's widow quietly stands by at her husband's funeral watching his colleagues bury an empty coffin. Petina Gappah's characters may have ordinary hopes and dreams, but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs half a million dollars; a country expected to have only four presidents in a hundred years; and a place where people know exactly what will be printed in the one and only daily newspaper because the news is always, always good. In her spirited debut collection, Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah brings us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe's regime. Despite their circumstances, the characters in An Elegy for Easterly are more than victims; they are all too human, with as much capacity to inflict pain as they have to endure it. They struggle with larger issues common to all people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams and the yearning for something to anchor them to life.

Book of Memory

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

120 kr

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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 and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, but really it was just my mother. Memory, the narrator of The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appeal her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between the past and the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate and the treachery of memory.

Rotten Row

AvPetina Gappah

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

126 kr

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It is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds.'Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.

Rotten Row

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Engelska, 2016

120 kr

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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 of justice. Rotten Row represents a leap in artistry and achievement from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly and The Book of Memory. With compassion and humour, Petina Gappah paints portraits of lives aching for meaning to produce a moving and universal tableau.

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

AvPetina Gappah

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

123 kr

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Prize-winning author Petina Gappah's tale of Dr Livingstone's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'incredible' (Yaa Gyasi), 'powerful' (Jesmyn Ward), and 'beautiful' (Anthony Doerr).'A fine writer.' J.M. Coetzee 'Wonderful.' The Times'Captivating.' GuardianThis is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles across the African interior so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country. This is the story of those in the shadows of history: those who saved a white man's bones, his dark companions, who became his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - little knowing that his corpse carried the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation and enslavement. This is the story of how human bravery, loyalty, and love can triumph over darkness - and it is Petina Gappah's radical masterpiece.'Incredible.' Yaa Gyasi'Beautiful.' Anthony Doerr'Powerful.' Jesmyn Ward

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Engelska, 2020

137 kr

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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 body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country.The wise men of his age say Livingstone blazed into the darkness of their native land leaving a track of light behind where white men who followed him could tread in perfect safety. But in Petina Gappah's radical novel, it is those in the shadows of history - those who saved a white man's bones; his dark companions; his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - whose voices are resurrected with searing intensity. This final, fateful journey across the African interior is lead by Halima, Livingstone's sharp-tongued cook, and three of his most devoted servants: Jacob, Chuma and Susi. Their tale of how his corpse was borne out of nineteenth-century Africa - carrying the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation - has the power of myth. It is not only symbolic of slavery's hypocrisy, but a portrait of a world trembling on the cusp of total change - and a celebration of human bravery, loyalty and love.

Elegy for Easterly

Faber Stories

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Engelska, 2019

34 kr

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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 visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be destroyed.Among them is Martha Mupengo. She has lost her wits, and gained a pregnancy. Who could be the baby's father, and what fate awaits mothers and children in this temporary, poverty-stricken town?

An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

AvPetina Gappah

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

272 kr

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The Book of Memory

AvPetina Gappah

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

312 kr

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light

A Novel

AvPetina Gappah

Ljudbok

Engelska, 2019

377 kr

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“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 impossible terrain “illuminates the agonies of colonialism and blind loyalty” (O, The Oprah Magazine). “This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of...David Livingstone, so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own land.” So begins Petina Gappah’s “searing…poignant” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa—the captivating story of the African men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone’s body, papers, and maps, fifteen hundred miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. Narrated by Halima, the doctor’s sharp-tongued cook, and Jacob Wainwright, his rigidly pious secretary, this is a “powerful novel, beautifully told” (Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing) that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization—the hypocrisy of humanity—while celebrating resilience, loyalty, and love.

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

A Novel

AvPetina Gappah

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

209 kr

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light

A Novel

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Engelska, 2019

169 kr

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“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 impossible terrain “illuminates the agonies of colonialism and blind loyalty” (O, The Oprah Magazine). “This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of...David Livingstone, so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own land.” So begins Petina Gappah’s “searing…poignant” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa—the captivating story of the African men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone’s body, papers, and maps, fifteen hundred miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. Narrated by Halima, the doctor’s sharp-tongued cook, and Jacob Wainwright, his rigidly pious secretary, this is a “powerful novel, beautifully told” (Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing) that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization—the hypocrisy of humanity—while celebrating resilience, loyalty, and love.

Le livre de Memory

AvPetina Gappah

Häftad, Franska, 2019

648 kr

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Aus der Dunkelheit strahlendes Licht

AvPetina Gappah

Inbunden, Tyska

295 kr

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Aus der Dunkelheit strahlendes Licht

Roman

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Tyska, 2019

227 kr

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Ein großer Roman über ein unbekanntes Stück afrikanischer Kolonialgeschichte, fiktionalisiert zu einer spannenden Abenteuerreise - erzählt von einer der aufregendsten afropolitischen Stimmen unserer Gegenwart.Seit ihrer Jugend ist Petina Gappah von der Geschichte um David Livingstone besessen – dem berühmten schottischen Missionar und Afrikaforscher, der sich des großen geografischen Rätsels seiner Zeit verschrieben hatte, der Entdeckung der Nilquellen. Aus Faszination wurde ein Roman: Als Livingstone 1873 auf der Suche stirbt, will seine treue Gefolgschaft seinen Leichnam in seine Heimat zurückbringen. So machen sich 69 Gefährten auf den wagemutigen Weg, ihn quer durch Afrika zu tragen, angeführt von einer jungen Frau – Halima, Livingstones scharfzüngiger Köchin.Es ist eine abenteuerliche und lebensbedrohliche Reise über 1.500 Meilen, auf der ihnen Hunger, Krankheit und Tod begegnen – und immer wieder die Frage: Wie weit sind wir bereit für unsere Freiheit zu gehen?

Memorys bok

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Svenska, 2017

79 kr

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Det här är en historia om att inte passa in. Det är historien om Memory: en ung kvinna som sitter på death row i kvinnofängelset i Zimbabwes huvudstad Harare. Memory sticker ut bland sina medfångar. Hon är bildad och privilegierad, och hon är albino. Hon är också den enda av fångarna som är dömd för mord – mordet på Lloyd Hendricks, den vite man som tagit hand om Memory sedan hon var liten. Medan Memory väntar på sitt straff skriver hon ner sin historia, i ett försök att få fallet omprövat. Hur dog egentligen Lloyd? Hur kom det sig att Memory flyttade in hos honom? Är det sant att hennes fattiga föräldrar sålde henne? Kan man lita på sina minnen? Memorys vittnesmål formar en hypnotiserande berättelse om öde, identitet, klass, ras och kön i ett land präglat av brutala kontraster.

Pimeydestä loistaa valo

AvPetina Gappah

E-bok

Finska, 2021

219 kr

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Livingstonen viimeinen matka

Nerokas romaani tohtori Livingstonen saattueen viimeisestä matkasta halki Afríkan.

Kun tutkimusmatkailija David Livingstone menehtyy etsiessään Niilin lähteitä, hänen seurueensa on vaikean kysymyksen edessä: pitäisikö heidän haudata tutkimusmatkailija vai kuljettaa ruumis takaisin rannikolle, josta se voitaisiin viedä Englantiin. Viimeisenä uskollisuudenosoituksenaan seurue päättää lähteä vaaralliselle ja pitkälle matkalle kohti merta.

Petina Gappah rakentaa Livingstonen palvelijoiden ruumissaatosta huikean, moniäänisen kudelman, joka on yhtä aikaa suuri seikkailu ja kriittinen näkökulma löytöretkiin ja kolonialismiin.

Petina Gappah on zimbabwelainen kirjailija ja juristi. Hän on opiskellut lakia Zimbabwessa, Itävallan Grazissa ja Cambridgessa ja työskennellyt kansainvälisen oikeuden parissa Genevessä. Nykyään hän on ammattikirjailija. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Tanssimestari ja muita tarinoita Zimbabwesta (suom. 2009) sai Guardianin esikoiskirjapalkinnon.

Pimeydestä loistaa valo

AvPetina Gappah

Ljudbok

Finska, 2019

229 kr

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Livingstonen viimeinen matka

Nerokas romaani tohtori Livingstonen saattueen viimeisestä matkasta halki Afríkan.

Kun tutkimusmatkailija David Livingstone menehtyy etsiessään Niilin lähteitä, hänen seurueensa on vaikean kysymyksen edessä: pitäisikö heidän haudata tutkimusmatkailija vai kuljettaa ruumis takaisin rannikolle, josta se voitaisiin viedä Englantiin. Viimeisenä uskollisuudenosoituksenaan seurue päättää lähteä vaaralliselle ja pitkälle matkalle kohti merta.

Petina Gappah rakentaa Livingstonen palvelijoiden ruumissaatosta huikean, moniäänisen kudelman, joka on yhtä aikaa suuri seikkailu ja kriittinen näkökulma löytöretkiin ja kolonialismiin.

Petina Gappah on zimbabwelainen kirjailija ja juristi. Hän on opiskellut lakia Zimbabwessa, Itävallan Grazissa ja Cambridgessa ja työskennellyt kansainvälisen oikeuden parissa Genevessä. Nykyään hän on ammattikirjailija. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Tanssimestari ja muita tarinoita Zimbabwesta (suom. 2009) sai Guardianin esikoiskirjapalkinnon.

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Petina Gappah – författare

Book of Memory

Elegy for Easterly

Elegy for Easterly

Book of Memory

Rotten Row

Rotten Row

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Elegy for Easterly

An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

The Book of Memory

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Le livre de Memory

Aus der Dunkelheit strahlendes Licht

Aus der Dunkelheit strahlendes Licht

Memorys bok

Pimeydestä loistaa valo

Pimeydestä loistaa valo

Mina sidor

Mina sidor

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Hjälp

Om Bokus

Om Bokus

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