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Fiction Friday | ‘The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse’ by Robert Muponde The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse is a magical coming-of-age tale set in rural Zimbabwe. Image: Supplied/Penguin Random House Ah, you’ve arrived. Sit down, please, and make yourself comfortable. There may not be much dinner tonight — Father is still out of work; Mother can’t do anything with those stunted maize plants in the stony ground — but at least you are here, in Gushure Village, hom...

Hilarious, poetic and poignant, Robert Muponde’s vibrant coming-of-age story of Ronald Guramatunhu brings to life rural Zimbabwe from the Second Chimurenga to independence.