War spares no one and too often, it is those who are caught in the crossfire who suffer most. Zimbabwe's liberation war was protracted and bloody; many people died, and memories and living and recent. Stained Earth is a powerful and moving collection of short stories narrated by a policeman, Greg Stanyon. The stories fuse clarity of observation with a sense of the pity and pain of the conflict. They cast doubt on the necessity of war, and illustrate that coming to terms with, and recovering from war require a process of truth-telling from different perspectives. The anthology invites the reader to reflect, again, on this period, from a rarely represented point of view. Derek Huggins' previously published fiction appears in Writing Still. New Stories from Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2003).
Stained Earth is a powerful and moving collection of short stories narrated by a policeman, Greg Stanyon. The clarity of his observations is fused with the pity and pain of this conflict. Both give rise to constant doubt about the war's necessity and reflect the toll it takes.
Stained Earth is a powerful and moving collection of short stories narrated by a policeman, Greg Stanyon. The clarity of his observations is fused with the pity and pain of this conflict. Both give rise to constant doubt about the war's necessity and reflect the toll it takes.