Matty's Dread: A Trekker's Hegira (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780995081208)

Drought ravages Zimbabwe three years after the war. A bus takes three friends: Kuda, Kindo and Chafichu back to work in Dhuma Village a deceptively sleepy place where dramas unfold. A flat tire outside a neighbor's house sets into motion a series of events. This radically changes the lives of the friends irreversibly connecting them to the Boer Mathias Van der Merwe. Wading into the middle, three Canadians must choose for in post-apartheid Zimbabwe even strangers learn that neutrality is an illusion. When the guns fall silent, the pain endures. How do enemies live with each other in peace? In the heady days after the Chimurenga which brought majority rule to Zimbabwe in 1980 both Africans and Settlers reacted to this new reality in various ways. Some hid away in their respective racially bound enclaves; others ran to different countries. Yet some like Mathias, a white farmer and Tawanda, an African freedom fighter had the courage to step over the line towards each other.

Author: Gail L. Harwood
ISBN-10: 0995081204
ISBN-13: 9780995081208
Publisher: Gail L. Harwood
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2016
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d