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Petina Gappah

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born

Zimbabwe

gender

female

website

http://www.petinagappah.com/index.html

genre

Short Stories

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Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University, and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. She lives with her son Kush in Geneva, where she works as counsel in an international organisation that provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries.

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Books by Petina Gappah

Average rating: 3.71 · 151 ratings · 49 reviews · 3 distinct works

	An Elegy for Easterly: Stories 3.71 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Les Racines Déchirées: Histoires by Petina Gappah, Anouk Neuhoff (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Book Of Memory 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Petina Gappah

“...life is one big jest at the expense of humanity.”
― Petina Gappah

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