1996 "First Edition" stated on copyright page; Crown Publishers, Inc., New York; smaller hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
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J. Nozipo Maraire (born 1964) is a Zimbabwean doctor, entrepreneur and writer. She is the author of Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter. The novel was published in 1996, was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" and a Boston Globe bestseller. It has been published and translated into more than 14 languages.
 
"... this letter is a gift from one generation to the next.  As her daughter enters a new world, a mother shares the riches of her own through stories of her personal experiences and those of her generation.  She writes of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence, and of the men and women who shaped it; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and a secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and a spy."