An Evening with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma in Cambridge

Join internationally renown, award winning author of House of Stone Novuyo Rosa Tshuma as she discusses her new novel. Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family, and nationhood.

Digging Stars is a paean to the cosmos and a celebration of the democratic spirit of knowledge. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s characters explode the rigid matrices of the academy to prove that science, art, technology and history are all planets orbiting the same sun.

Book signing to follow.

About the author

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is the author of House of Stone, which won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction, and was listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has taught community fiction workshops globally. Raised in Zimbabwe and South Africa, she currently lives in Boston, USA.

Praise for Digging Stars

"[Digging Stars] is a smart, incisive novel that blends a gripping coming-of-age story with a poignant story about loss, all the while asking us to consider: What compromises are we willing to make to achieve our highest ambitions and how much do we owe our own history?" - Weike Wang - New York Times Book Review

"Sumptuous, propulsive, and radiant. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is unafraid to scale the stars. What a liberating thrill to read this book!" - NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory

Praise of House of Stone:

With luminous language, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma explores the treacherous terrain of colonization and decolonization, remembering and forgetting, and love and betrayal. The result is a gripping account of revolution and its aftermath, both for a country and for one man - Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 'The Sympathizer'

Are we on the cusp of a new age of African literature?... A courageous and probing work - Los Angeles Review of Books

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