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Tendai Biti is a Zimbabwean politician who served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2013. He is the current Member of Parliament for Harare East Constituency and the second Vice President of Movement for Democratic Change.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 2003-10-05 (first published in 1985)
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino...
Tendai Biti
2019-12-30T06:32:59.000Z
2)Marquez s “Love in the time of cholera” & “100 yrs of solitude “ are two of my top books but one still weeps reading or re- reading Tolstoy s “ War & Peace “a book bettered only by “ Anna Karenina. Not a fan of these motivational books but that “f#cked “ up book is quite funny      source
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 2003-06-24 (first published in 1967)
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One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of ...
Tendai Biti
2019-12-30T06:32:59.000Z
2)Marquez s “Love in the time of cholera” & “100 yrs of solitude “ are two of my top books but one still weeps reading or re- reading Tolstoy s “ War & Peace “a book bettered only by “ Anna Karenina. Not a fan of these motivational books but that “f#cked “ up book is quite funny      source
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light
A Novel
Petina Gappah - 2019-09-10
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“This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, David Livingstone, so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own land.” So begins Petina Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in nineteenth-century Africa—the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and m...
Tendai Biti
2019-12-13T09:23:54.000Z
Ms Petina Gappah s latest book “Out of Darkness, Shining Light” is an extremely ambitious project that scales heights never before flighted by a Zimbabwean author . It’s a frightening historical novel that must make compulsory reading .Bar her politics , this woman is a treasure      source
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy - 2012-10-16 (first published in 1878)
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Tolstoy published Anna Karenina in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as, "the best ever ...
Tendai Biti
2018-09-23T10:00:13.000Z
Re-reading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written ? With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others      source