Crossroads

Spencer S. M. Tizora

 

The book is out of print.

Synopsis

Crossroads is a profoundly moral book, set shortly after Zimbabwe's guerrilla war and independence. It rejects euphoria over victory in order to explore the complexity of the recent past and unclear hopes for the future. Lives portrayed unveil the harrowing disruption - individual, social, marital, educational, psychological, geographical - warfare has inflicted on its victims, black and white, and the imperatives of survival amidst carnage that have caused widespread lostness. There are no heroes.

Review

As a whole, Crossroads is a sensitively written novel which poses serious questions throughout, and it does not pretend to offer answers at all. its limitation, perhaps, is that it tries to do too many things at once, and none of the fundamental issues raised in it are followed up in the end. - Rino Zhuwarara, Postcolonial Web

Author

Spencer S. M. Tizora was born in Bulawayo Zimbabwe, after graduating from the University of Zimbabwe he taught for many years in secondary schools.

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