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It is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds.
Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.

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    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 07/09/2017
    ISBN13: 9780571324194, 978-0571324194
    ISBN10: 0571324193
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    It is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds.
    Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.

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