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The Colours That Blind

by Rutendo Tavengerwei
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A breathtaking YA novel set in Zimbabwe about freedom, inter-generational friendships and forgiving the past.
Tumi desperately wants to make the Zimbabwean national swimming team. Only in swimming does he escape the hatred and exclusion that his albinism brings him. But when he has to stay with his grandmother for a while, the trauma of the terrible thing that happened to him in the past comes rushing back.
Can Ambuya help Tumi by revealing her own shocking past - a story riddled with racial hatred in war-torn Rhodesia, featuring murder and an illegal love? And what of Tumi's suspicions that she was involved in his nightmare?
From the author of HOPE IS OUR ONLY WING.
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Publisher: Bonnier Books UK

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  • ISBN: 9781471408199
  • Release date: May 14, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9781471408199
  • File size: 807 KB
  • Release date: May 14, 2020

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Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature

Languages

English

A breathtaking YA novel set in Zimbabwe about freedom, inter-generational friendships and forgiving the past.
Tumi desperately wants to make the Zimbabwean national swimming team. Only in swimming does he escape the hatred and exclusion that his albinism brings him. But when he has to stay with his grandmother for a while, the trauma of the terrible thing that happened to him in the past comes rushing back.
Can Ambuya help Tumi by revealing her own shocking past - a story riddled with racial hatred in war-torn Rhodesia, featuring murder and an illegal love? And what of Tumi's suspicions that she was involved in his nightmare?
From the author of HOPE IS OUR ONLY WING.
Expand title description text
Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature