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Eyeopening memoir weaving violent zimbabwean politics with the. This vibrant, tragic and surprsingly funny book is the best account yet of ordinary. The last resort a memoir of zimbabwe paperback author. Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, the last. The last resort why would douglas rogers parents hang on and. The last resort is a dark, comic, truelife thriller about lyn and ros rogers. The last resort is a 5 issue limitedseries from idw publishing by writers justin gray and jimmy palmiotti with art by giancarlo caracuzzo in 2009. We need new names by noviolet bulawayo, nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga, dont lets go to the dogs tonight. Born and raised in zimbabwe, douglas rogers is the son of white farmers.
Listed by the guardian as one of the top 10 books about zimbabwe, and with. A memoir of zimbabwe by douglas rogers has 1,830 members. Rogers manages to do the vital work of taking race out of zimbabwes story and putting the. Douglas rogers has written a compelling book, the last resort, about life in zimbabwe in the 21st century. What distinguishes douglas rogerss book from others is that there is a genuine narrative thread to his. Hailed by the new york times as the best book on ordinary life for blacks and. Rogers talks early on in the book about having left zimbabwe behind, barely feeling like a zimbabwean anymore.
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