THE CREATION OF HALF-BROKEN PEOPLE

371pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

An anonymous woman is plagued by visions. She works for the Good Foundation and its museum, which is filled with artefacts from the family’s explorations in Africa, the family members being descendants of Captain John Good, a character from H. Ridder Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines.

"Ndlovu richly deserves her place in the African pantheon of storytellers. This is a spectacular work of research and an intimate tale about the corrosive effects of colonialism and conquest." Rémy Ngamije, author of The Eternal Audience of One

Zimbabwean writer, scholar and filmmaker Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is a 2022 recipient of the Windham–Campbell Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel, The Theory of Flight, won the 2019 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. Her second and third novels are The History of Man and The Quality of Mercy. After almost two decades of living in the USA, she has returned home to Bulawayo.