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The Shipikisha Club 9781913175900 Hardback

A woman on trial. A marriage built on silence. A culture that demands endurance.Sali, a working mother of three, is on trial for the murder...

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A woman on trial. A marriage built on silence. A culture that demands endurance.Sali, a working mother of three, is on trial for the murder of her husband, Kasunga. Accused of shooting him after a fight in their bedroom, she pleads not guilty and must rely on an overworked legal aid lawyer as a courtroom hungry for judgement looks on.Fourteen years earlier, Salis life was shaped by a different kind of violence. The pressure to conform, to endure, toshipikisha. When an affair with a wealthy, married man ends in sudden death, she enters a loveless marriage to escape the shame of unwed motherhood. What follows is a life marked by infidelity, financial strain, postnatal depression and quiet suffering, until endurance finally gives way.Told through a braided narrative moving between past and present,The Shipikisha Clubis a powerful literary novel about marriage, motherhood and the devastating cost of silence in contemporary Zambia.

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