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Your support makes all the difference.For Tinashe, the young narrator of Eames's atomspheric second novel, the safest place to be is inside the carcass of an elephant: "I don't know what I expected to find inside the elephant – a beating heart? Intestines waving gaily like torn flags."
But escaping the political violence of 1960s Rhodesia isn't the only struggle this over-burdened youth has to face. Responsible for his eccentric sister's safety, he finds himself confronting a wave of misogynistic nastiness from villagers.
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