Sunday, June 5, 2011

Smouldering Charcoal

#632
Title: Smouldering Charcoal
Author: Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher: Heinemann
Year:1992
Country: Malawi
191 pages

This very tense and informative novel provides a brief but vivid entree to the unfortunately typical post-colonial stresses and government corruption so crushing to the people of many newly-independent states. The narrative has some stylistic issues, with jumps in point of view and over to minor characters, which are not only jarring but diffuse the tension in a way that detracts from the story.

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