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Obligations to the Wounded

Name: Obligations to the Wounded
ISBN: 9780822991618

By
- Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press

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Series: 33 of 31
Language: English
Format
Category: Short stories

Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Longlist, 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction | Winner, Minnesota Book Awards of 2025 | Winner, 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award | Finalist, 2024 Foreword Indies Award | Cowinner, The Boston Globe's Best 75 Books of 2024 Winner | The Minnesota Star Tribune Best Book of 2024 | Cowinner, Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2024 | Cowinner, The Continent's Top 5 African Books of 2024

In formally adventurous stories rooted in Zambian literary tradition, Obligations to the Wounded explores the expectations and burdens of womanhood in Zambia and for Zambian women living abroad. The collection converses with global social problems through the depiction of games, social media feuds, letters, and folklore to illustrate how girls and women manage religious expectation, migration, loss of language, death, intimate partner violence, and racial discrimination. Although the women and girls inhabiting these pages are separated geographically and by life stage, their shared burdens, culture, and homeland inextricably link them together in struggle and triumph.

Release date

Ebook: 8 October 2024