![]() ![]() ![]() Na’ima Robert: For some time, I had been angered by what I considered biased reporting of the land reform programme by the BBC. What prompted you to tackle the controversial (and topical) land issue in Zimbabwe in this novel about family and growing up? “Katie and Tariro are two girls linked by a terrible secret, grappling with the complexities of adolescence, family and a painful colonial legacy as their lives play out against the tragic history of the land in Zimbabwe….Atmospheric, gripping and epic in scope, Far from Home brings the turbulent history of Zimbabwe to vivid, tangible life, challenging the reader to see it with new eyes.”Įmmanuel Sigauke: First, congratulations on the publication of ‘Far from Home’. It is a novel about growing up, family, Zimbabwean colonial and post colonial history which chronicles the pains of land dispossession and loss of home.Some of the central issues of the novels are captured in the following description, given at the author website: ![]() Robert, author of the new novel ‘Far from Home’, which I just finished reading. ![]()
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