Shamiso by Brian Chikwava
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A luminous and emotionally powerful literary novel about migration, identity, queerness, and belonging. Brian Chikwava’s Shamiso follows a young Zimbabwean woman rebuilding her life in Brighton while navigating love, gender fluidity, and the search for self.
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Shamiso by Brian Chikwava is a bold, lyrical, and emotionally rich hardcover novel exploring identity, migration, love, and belonging in modern Britain. Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2026, this acclaimed work follows young Shamiso as she leaves Zimbabwe for Brighton, England, searching for connection, reinvention, and a place to call home.
In Brighton, Shamiso becomes entangled with George, sometimes Georgie, whose fluid sense of gender and self mirrors her own shifting understanding of identity and desire. As relationships deepen and fractures emerge, Shamiso navigates the complicated terrain of race, queerness, family, migration, and personal transformation.
Praised as “witty, inventive and sensual” by Nobel Prize laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Shamiso is both intimate and expansive: a coming-of-age story filled with sharp humor, emotional honesty, and dazzling prose. Brian Chikwava crafts a deeply human portrait of modern existence, where love and selfhood refuse easy definitions.
This hardcover edition is ideal for readers of literary fiction, queer fiction, contemporary African literature, and emotionally layered coming-of-age novels.
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781805301274
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