--- product_id: 4148874 title: "Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter" price: "€ 24.86" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ie/products/4148874-zenzele-a-letter-for-my-daughter store_origin: IE region: Ireland --- # Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter **Price:** € 24.86 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter - **How much does it cost?** € 24.86 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ie](https://www.desertcart.ie/products/4148874-zenzele-a-letter-for-my-daughter) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, J. Nozipo Maraire evokes the moving story of a mother reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and bring the two closer than ever before. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, Zenzele tells the tales of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence and the men and women who shaped it: Zenzele's father, an outspoken activist lawyer; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and a spy. Rich with insight, history, and philosophy, Zenzele is a powerful and compelling story that is both revolutionary and revelatory--the story of one life that poignantly speaks of all lives. Review: reading and learning and remembering - This book is intense. There are so many layers to understand and relate to things we are able to connect to our world today. It’s about strength, it is about family and tradition but most of all it is about love and learning to move forward even with pain. It teaches the story of change and embracing it even when it hurts! My granddaughter is reading it as a freshman. We have talked about in many chapters. Whether you read this book at 15 or later in life,each phase of life will see it differently. I Review: I couldn't put it down - It's a timeless letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard. Each chapter contains a conversation from the mother to her daughter, giving her some life lessons, family history, folk lore so she doesn't lose her roots, her culture, and the values her family and village have instilled in her before her flight to America. She shares the lessons she learned growing up in Zimbabwe when it was Rhodesia, the segregation between the blacks and the whites, her disappointments and her hopes. What it means to be a proud citizen of Zimbabwe. She shares what she learned from her mother-in-law on her wedding day in what it means to be an African woman. She writes of the struggles by the men and women who fought for Zimbabwe's independence, including Zenzele's father, an activist lawyer and Zenzele's Aunt Linda, a guerilla fighter, and a cousin who was a spy while working as a maid. The reminiscences are poignant as they are vivid. You feel so much love flowing from each sentence you want to reach out and embrace the woman writing them tightly to your heart. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #373,532 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #115 in Epistolary Fiction (Books) #1,024 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #14,799 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 127 Reviews | ## Images ![Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1AQk6bxgfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reading and learning and remembering *by S***R on March 27, 2024* This book is intense. There are so many layers to understand and relate to things we are able to connect to our world today. It’s about strength, it is about family and tradition but most of all it is about love and learning to move forward even with pain. It teaches the story of change and embracing it even when it hurts! My granddaughter is reading it as a freshman. We have talked about in many chapters. Whether you read this book at 15 or later in life,each phase of life will see it differently. I ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I couldn't put it down *by C***M on February 10, 2012* It's a timeless letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard. Each chapter contains a conversation from the mother to her daughter, giving her some life lessons, family history, folk lore so she doesn't lose her roots, her culture, and the values her family and village have instilled in her before her flight to America. She shares the lessons she learned growing up in Zimbabwe when it was Rhodesia, the segregation between the blacks and the whites, her disappointments and her hopes. What it means to be a proud citizen of Zimbabwe. She shares what she learned from her mother-in-law on her wedding day in what it means to be an African woman. She writes of the struggles by the men and women who fought for Zimbabwe's independence, including Zenzele's father, an activist lawyer and Zenzele's Aunt Linda, a guerilla fighter, and a cousin who was a spy while working as a maid. The reminiscences are poignant as they are vivid. You feel so much love flowing from each sentence you want to reach out and embrace the woman writing them tightly to your heart. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Relevant, captivating! *by J***A on May 26, 2024* I went through so many different emotions but the overarching one was a sense of pride that I was a Zimbabwean woman. 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