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Front Row: His House director Remi Weekes, Booker Prize Book Group with Tsitsi Dangarembga

His House director Remi Weekes, Booker Prize Book Group with Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses her novel This Mournable Body in the Booker Prize Book Group

Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga is the guest of the latest Front Row Booker Prize Book Group for her novel This Mournable Body; His House director Remi Weekes

For the second of Front Row's Booker Prize Book Groups, listeners put their questions to Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga whose novel This Mournable Body is shortlisted for the title.  It’s the third part of a trilogy that began with the highly-acclaimed Nervous Conditions in 1988.  The books tell the story of Tambudzai, a woman whose life has been full of promise but who now finds herself mired in the conditions of late 20th century Harare and pushed to the very edge.  The author will also talk about her arrest after a protest earlier this summer, its consequences and the support she has received from other writers.

First-time feature film director Remi Weekes had his horror thriller snapped up by Netflix for an eight-figure sum at Sundance earlier this year. This week you’ll be able to see the film and Weekes joins Samira Ahmed to talk about His House - the story of Bol and Rial who escape war-torn South Sudan and arrive in the UK aboard a boat that sinks in the channel. The peeling walls of the Essex house they are allocated hold an evil spirit that has followed them from Africa. The authorities say they must not leave and the couple are left to deal with a haunted house that is almost as horrible as their own past.  

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