Harare North "ngozi", an avenging spirit in Shona culture, which normally afflicts one who has murdered an innocent person. It is essentially the dramatisation of trauma, resulting in what modern psychology calls Dissociative Identity Disorder. In this way Chikwava explores the trauma suffered by young men who joined the militia in Zimbabwe and committed atrocities for their political masters. Throughout the story, the narrator and his friend, or host body, are tied together by a number of motifs, some of them ambivalent. These include "Harare North" was longlisted for the 2010 Orwell Prize for political writing. Harare North Harare North is a
In the Heart of the Country the 1977 British version, the 1977 American version which was the same but published under the title "From The Heart Of The Country", and the 1978 South African version. In the South African version the novel's dialogue is in Afrikaans. The novel was awarded the 1977 CNA Prize. Marion Hänsel directed a motion picture adaptation, "Dust," in 1985. In the Heart of the Country In the Heart of the Country (1977) is an early novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. The book is one of Coetzee's more experimental novels and is narrated through 266 numbered paragraphs rather than