House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe
Christina Lamb, . . Lawrence Hill, $24.95 (290pp) ISBN 978-1-55652-735-7
Two very different lives run in parallel in award-winning British journalist Lamb’s riveting account of Zimbabwe’s brutal civil war in the 1970s, “the elation of becoming the last British colony in Africa to win independence [in 1980]... and then the descent into madness.” By alternating chapters from the perspectives of Aqui Shamvi, a poor black woman, and Nigel Hough, a wealthy white man, Lamb (
Reviewed on: 07/09/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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