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An Elegy for Easterly: Faber Stories. Petina Gappah. Faber Faber, Jan 3, - Fiction - 48 pages. 0 Reviews. Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. www.doorway.ru: An Elegy for Easterly: Stories () by Gappah, Petina and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.  · An Elegy for Easterly: Stories. By Petina Gappah. Hardcover, pages. Faber and Faber. List price: $ Fame is an elastic concept, especially in a .

An Elegy for Easterly is a book of short stories and it is an uneven book. Some of the stories are superb--masterful, controlled, eminently entertaining. Others seem to have lost their sense of purpose and it is at times difficult to make out what the author was trying to get at. Gappah sets down these memories in her debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, as a verbal portrait of her expiring motherland, where the brush-strokes are the short stories she has each based "on one true thing". The collection's wide scope takes in past and present (Rhodesia, Zimbabwe); people and place (the cousin returning from. An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah | Editorial Reviews. Paperback $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby Stores.

AN ELEGY FOR EASTERLY Stories by Petina Gappah “Petina Gappah has written a vital and honest collection of stories that vividly capture the surreal personal tragedies of twenty-first- century Zimbabweans through a rich palette of wry, dark, and intimate voices.” —Owen Sheers, author of Resistance and The Dust Diaries INTRODUCTION. Our Man in Geneva Wins a Million Euros is the next selected story from An Elegy for Easterly, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah's debut collection and winner of the Guardian First Book Award for Today an embassy official posted to Geneva sets out to claim his lottery winnings. Each of the three stories selected from. An Elegy for Easterly: Faber Stories. Petina Gappah. Faber Faber, Jan 3, - Fiction - 48 pages. 0 Reviews. Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual.