09-08-2025
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Book review: Brian Chikwava's Shamiso captures immigrant experience in musical prose
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Shamiso by Zimbabwean writer Brian Chikwava is an exploration of artistic passion and cultural displacement.
By Brian Chikwava
Fiction/Paperback/Canongate Books/170 pages/$26.26
Zimbabwean writer Brian Chikwava, winner of the 2004 Caine Prize for African writing in English, delivers a slim yet compelling novel that follows the journey of Shamiso, a young girl from rural Zimbabwe, to the streets of Brighton, England.
