Phillip Makope

Awesome. A heartbreaking story told in such a beautiful but tacit way. I fell deeply in love with the narrative. Khaled Hosseini is indeed a gifted storyteller.

BBC meant it and I'm glad they singled this book out and named it one of the Top 100 books that have shaped the world. This indescribably beautiful novel has maintained its relevancy, and regardless of how time has flown, it has remained constructive and still superbly remains that timeless old classic.

A book so exhilarating, penned lucidly, a blended tale of pain and humour, exhuming the agony, not only of one woman, but as a microcosm, the agony of the entire Zimbabwean citizenry.

Dangarembga has got that 'thing'. She writes in such a way that, no matter how many times you've read her books, you still long for them. Her writing is prophetic, didactic and transformative.