House of Stone

Review An extraordinary achievement ― Helon Habila, Guardian Remarkable... Brilliant... Wise and demanding... Stunning... A remarkable feat... Ingenious ― New York Times Epic... Beautiful ― Panashe Chigumadzi, Guardian A towering and multi-layered gem. One of the greatest-ever novels about Zimbabwe ― NoViolet Bulawayo, author of 'We Need New Names' Hilarious and horrifying... Easily the best debut I've read this year ― Culturefly Astounding ― The Skinny One of the most brilliant writers I know ― Garth Greenwell, author of 'What Belongs to You' Stunning ― Bookriot Captivating ― Emerald Street Are we on the cusp of a new age of African literature?... A courageous and probing work ― Los Angeles Review of Books Smart, original, feisty, brutal and gorgeous ― Chika Unigwe, author of 'On Black Sisters' Street' Enthralling... Audacious... A huge talent. ― Brian Chikwava, author of 'Harare North' A truly original work of art... Utterly stunning. ― author of 'The Hairdresser of Harare' House of Stone is the novel devastated Zimbabwe needed to have written. Now Novuyo Tshuma has written it. Bayethe to her scintillating talent! In the most original and fearless prose I've read in years, Tshuma's scheming narrator, Zamani, reveals the personal and political disintegration that was Zimbabwe's undoing. ― Tsitsi Dangarembga With luminous language, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma explores the treacherous terrain of colonization and decolonization, remembering and forgetting, and love and betrayal. The result is a gripping account of revolution and its aftermath, both for a country and for one man -- Viet Thanh Nguyen ― Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 'The Sympathizer' Product Description Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, 2019 Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, 2019 __________ 'Easily the best debut I've read this year, Tshuma's novel is both hilarious and horrifying, filled with compassion, anger and despair. [Her] unreliable narrator [is] of the kind that deserves to be remembered up there with Humbert Humbert' Kim Evans, Culturefly __________ Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea... Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, polite, well-read and well-heeled, he's almost part of the family - but almost isn't quite good enough for Zamani. Cajoling, coaxing and coercing Abed and Agnes into revealing their sometimes tender, often brutal life stories, Zamani aims to steep himself in borrowed family history, so that he can fully inherit and inhabit its uncertain future. Book Description 'Easily the best debut I've read this year, Tshuma's novel is both hilarious and horrifying, filled with compassion, anger and despair. [Her] unreliable narrator [is] of the kind that deserves to be remembered up there with Humbert Humbert' Kim Evans, Culturefly About the Author Novuyo Rosa Tshuma grew up in Zimbabwe, and has lived in South Africa and the USA. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first novel, House of Stone, has been longlisted for the Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2019, shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2019 and has won an Edward Stanford Award.