Synopsis
This deceptively lean work presents a history and a community that reach back to 1896, when Fumbatha's father and sixteen other men were hanged for opposing white rule in Zimbabwe. Fumbatha is born the same year that his father is hanged and is fifty years old when the story opens. He meets the very young Phephelaphi on the Umguza River, and she moves in with him at Sidojiwe E2, the longest street in Makokoba township in Bulawayo.
