Rotten Row Helena Bester As they try to make

As they try to make sense of a changed world

The new Captain is vulgar

without compromising on taste

and even passion

From a story of a campus rape in 1983

Rotten Row Helena Bester As they try to makeIt is just after nine o'clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty three minutes and thirteen seconds. 'Rotten Row' is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerizing collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to