Rotten Row Helena Bester Or what compromises she would

Or what compromises she would have to make to protect her family

The new Captain is vulgar

Covering everything from friendships

without compromising on taste

From a story of a campus rape in 1983

Rotten Row Helena Bester Or what compromises she wouldIt is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty three minutes and thirteen seconds. 'Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerizing collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to