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ISBN | 9780143527534 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
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Everyone calls me Pumpkin. Firstly, because I was a fat, chubby-cheeked baby. And, secondly, because when Ma was pregnant with me, no matter how much pumpkin she ate, she just couldnt get enough . . . Lusaka. 1978. Pumpkin is nine years old. Her fashionable mother is the queen of Tudu Court, but underneath the veneer of respectability that her fathers money provides lies a secret that threatens their whole world the tall, elegant Totela Ponga is a drunk. And when Pumpkins father the wealthy businessman JS discovers her mothers alcoholism it sets in motion a chain of events that come to define the rest of her life. Weaving together the stories of three generations of women this novel is a patchwork of love, jealousy and human frailty set against a backdrop of war and political ambition. It is a remarkable journey that takes us deep into the heart of a family both fractured and bound together by their love of one man.