Synopsis: 'Cause and effect. There is always cause, some will argue. But how easily does cruelty born of injustice turn into cruelty born of itself. And how inevitable is the day when effect becomes cause. When new hatreds will need expression . . .' When Rhodesian expatriate Vaughn Bourke returns to Zimbabwe to exhume the graves of his family from their farm, Hopelands, he does so to escape the failure of his life in Australia. His marriage and pro-fessional life are in tatters; he needs a change of scene. But while he knows the farm is under threat of seizure from a ruthless group of 'war veterans', Vaughn has no idea of the nightmare that awaits him in a country where violence and anarchy are the order of the day. Together with his siblings, Gus and Angela, he begins the arduous task of removing the remains of their forebears from the contested soil of Hopelands to a church cemetery in the nearby village of Shangani. But the exhumations soon uncover a terrible event of the past that becomes an ominous prelude to a greater tragedy in which loss of life and land is inevitable. Through the brutal disintegra-tion of a once close-knit family Place of Birth provides a disturbing and trenchant insight into the vio-lent maelstrom of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
Title: Place of Birth
Sub Title: A Novel
Author: Graham Lang
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Year: 2006
Number of pages: 285
ISBN: 9781868422524
Condition: Used
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