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Granite (Paperback)
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Granite (Paperback)
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Loot Price R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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Thoughtful, insightful and compelling, Granite is a well-executed
imagining of what happened to cause the collapse of the
civilisation of Great Zimbabwe (called Zimba Remabwe in the book).
While adult historical fiction has experienced a recent resurgence
in interest, narratives are mostly drawn from European history;
Granite is refreshingly African, illuminating a relatively
unexplored area in fiction. It also shifts “fictionalised history”
away from the European centre: in the story, Zimba Remabwe exists
as a sophisticated African city state well integrated with the rest
of the mid-fifteenth-century world. It is a world in which Arab
scholars travel from China and India to Europe and Britain, filing
their chronicles in the revered library of Timbuktu. The narrative
method is worth noting: because he cannot write, the story is
dictated by a young nobleman called Mokomba – one of few survivors
of his city’s downfall. The penman is Shafiq, a learned Arab
traveller who is a father figure after the passing of Mokomba’s own
father. Each chapter relates a series of events from these two
characters’ perspectives, as they fill in what the other might have
glossed over. The result is a finely rendered narrative of two
distinct voices.
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