Rotten Row Helena Bester Covering everything from friendships

Covering everything from friendships

From a story of a campus rape in 1983

where cats prowl and foxes shriek

and even passion

Three years after the Nuremberg trials

Rotten Row Helena Bester Covering everything from friendshipsIt 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 mesmerizing 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