From the Publisher: The year is 2194, and Tendai, his brother, and his sister-the children of Zimbabwe's chief of security-have escaped from their father's estate to explore the dangerous city of Harare.
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.