By Nhamo Muchagumisa
Published by Aadhya Publishing House
Edited by Akanksha Shrivastava
You will definitely take in every word as you read the collection from cover to cover. The perennial focus of literature on human shortcomings is the mainstay of every story, but as you read each story, it is like touring an entirely new landscape or navigating a newly discovered sea.Through your imagination you will explore the depth of the deepest sea and scale the highest sky as this writer unpacks such themes as love, lust, betrayal, mystery and the paranormal.
Every story challenges your perception of reality, teases your imagination of life beyond scientifically proven facts and when you are done reading, you will be left searching for more beyond the back cover, but that experience is countermanded by a random replay of the events in some of the stories in your mind.
Through reading the “Baby Angel” you may discover at least fourteen reasons why reading may be your first choice pastime. You will realise that the only substitute for reading is reading more. You will also discover that there are more stories that still need to be told, though in the postmodern era the general perspective is that the writers of yore said it all.
“The Baby Angel” takes you through an experience nobody may ever take away from you, an experience that may never become distant with every breath you take, but that remains as fresh as the returning morrow’s dawn once your clock crosses midnight.
I’m not a relationship therapist, but a story or two in the collection may play that role for me.
The proverbial generation gap may be a mere theory as the storylines here presented appeal to all age groups without prejudice or favour.
I may not be a revolutionary in the art of fiction writing, but I’m not confined to the conventional strait jacket and every story takes the style that suits it’s subject with the freshness of approach that makes the reader wonder how much they can take in.
Although set in Zimbabwe you will realise after reading the first story, whether you are reading in the order they are presented or not that the physical setting will not preclude your mastery of the issues obtaining in every story.
No piece of writing may survive gender based scrutiny, but in “The Baby Angel”, sex is not a key element. Every story revolves around the human animal first and whether they are male or female is not necessarily the precedent in the writers thematic approach.
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