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Two African Women Writers with Acclaimed Debut Novels

An Afternoon of New Women Voices of African Fiction at Revolution Books
— A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event @BKBF

Novuyo Tshuma (House of Stone”) & Namwali Serpell (“The Old Drift”) in Conversation

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*Novuyo Tshuma* is a Zimbabwean writer living in Houston. House of Stone is her sweeping epic spanning the fall of Rhodesia through Zimbabwe’s turbulent beginnings, exploring the persistence of the oppressed in a young nation seeking an identity but built on forgetting.
“…one of the greatest-ever novels about Zimbabwe.”
– NoViolet Bulawayo, author of We Need New Names

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*Namwali Serpell* is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. The Old Drift is an inter-generational saga that combines history, romance, and science fiction, revealing the cruelties and absurdities of colonialism, and the yearning to create and to cross borders.
“An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic… as ambitious as any first novel published this decade.”
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

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Suggested donation $5-10 for Revolution Books

This event, which takes place in Harlem at RB, is part of the Brooklyn Book Festival. The Festival itself happens on Sunday, September 22, from 10am till 6pm near Borough Hall in Brooklyn. Take 2/3/4/5 to Borough Hall or A/C/F to Jay Street. Look for RevBooks table at the festival, Booth #603











When: Sat., Sep. 21, 2019 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345
Price: $5-$10 donation
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An Afternoon of New Women Voices of African Fiction at Revolution Books
— A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event @BKBF

Novuyo Tshuma (House of Stone”) & Namwali Serpell (“The Old Drift”) in Conversation

* * *
*Novuyo Tshuma* is a Zimbabwean writer living in Houston. House of Stone is her sweeping epic spanning the fall of Rhodesia through Zimbabwe’s turbulent beginnings, exploring the persistence of the oppressed in a young nation seeking an identity but built on forgetting.
“…one of the greatest-ever novels about Zimbabwe.”
– NoViolet Bulawayo, author of We Need New Names

* * *
*Namwali Serpell* is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. The Old Drift is an inter-generational saga that combines history, romance, and science fiction, revealing the cruelties and absurdities of colonialism, and the yearning to create and to cross borders.
“An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic… as ambitious as any first novel published this decade.”
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

* * *
Suggested donation $5-10 for Revolution Books

This event, which takes place in Harlem at RB, is part of the Brooklyn Book Festival. The Festival itself happens on Sunday, September 22, from 10am till 6pm near Borough Hall in Brooklyn. Take 2/3/4/5 to Borough Hall or A/C/F to Jay Street. Look for RevBooks table at the festival, Booth #603

Buy tickets/get more info now