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By Lily Mabura

ISBN-10: 0435075411

ISBN-13: 9780435075415

An artist in mourning for a brother who died scuffling with in Bosnia, a stressed younger lady alerted to the potential for existence outdoor her tight knit group, an unemployed attorney lingering in a Kenyan medical institution - Lily Mabura's first selection of brief tales bargains with characters whose fates fascinate and alarm.

Set in Kenya, the us, Namibia and the Congo, those short, evocative stories show an acute sensitivity to the globalised trajectories which more and more distinguish our international.

one in all Kenya's so much promising authors, Lily Mabura's tale 'How we could Kill the Bishop?' was once shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize for African Fiction

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