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Zebra Crossing

by Meg Vandermerwe
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ghost. ape. living dead. Young Chipo has been called many names, but to her mother – Zimbabwe's most loyal Manchester United supporter – she had always just been Chipo, meaning gift.On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town hoping for a better life and to share in the excitement of the greatest sporting event ever to take place in Africa.But the Mother City's infamous Long Streetis a dangerous place for an illegal immigrant and albino. Soon Chipo is caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme organised by her brother and the terrifying Dr Ongani.Exploiting gamblers' superstitions about albinism, they plan to make money and get out before rumours of looming xenophobic attacks become reality. However, their scheming has devastating consequences.Set in the underbelly of a pulsating Cape Town, Meg Vandermerwe's Zebra Crossing is a bold, lyrical imagining of what it might feel like to live in another's skin.

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Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

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  • ISBN: 9781415205549
  • Release date: June 27, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781415205549
  • File size: 377 KB
  • Release date: June 27, 2013

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English

ghost. ape. living dead. Young Chipo has been called many names, but to her mother – Zimbabwe's most loyal Manchester United supporter – she had always just been Chipo, meaning gift.On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town hoping for a better life and to share in the excitement of the greatest sporting event ever to take place in Africa.But the Mother City's infamous Long Streetis a dangerous place for an illegal immigrant and albino. Soon Chipo is caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme organised by her brother and the terrifying Dr Ongani.Exploiting gamblers' superstitions about albinism, they plan to make money and get out before rumours of looming xenophobic attacks become reality. However, their scheming has devastating consequences.Set in the underbelly of a pulsating Cape Town, Meg Vandermerwe's Zebra Crossing is a bold, lyrical imagining of what it might feel like to live in another's skin.

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Fiction Literature