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Sascam Express
Sascam Express
Sascam Express
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2009. A country (Zimbabwe) is recovering from a crippling inflation. But Laina has lost everything: colleagues, a successful career, family, and the old, safe life. With her niece Junior, a school leaver, they hop from job-seeking to creating jobs to religion and back.

A friendship grows between Junior and Zira, a retrenched tourist guide turned pimp. When Laina decides to sell her house in desperation, Zira introduces her to an estate agent whose marriage crumbled when his wife evaporated into the diaspora during the peak of inflation. Together, the unemployed, the underpaid and people with untapped talent became so disgruntled they form a movement, the Sascam Express.

In this profoundly moving novel, Masitera handles the weighty themes of deprivation, unemployment, and exploitation with superb lightness and wit.

(SASCAM is an acronym for Salisbury Association for the Care of the African Mentally handicapped.)
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Release dateMar 19, 2016
ISBN9781482861662
Sascam Express
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Lilian Masitera

Lilian Masitera’s work includes an anthology of poetry Militant Shadow (1996) and two novellas The Trail (2000) and Start with Me (2011). In 1997, she received the Poet of Merit award from the International Society of Poets, Washington, DC. Some of her poems were translated into German. Masitera holds a degree in mathematics and works as a trainer of mathematics teachers. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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