A breathtaking YA novel set in Zimbabwe about freedom, inter-generational friendships and forgiving the past.
Tumi desperately wants to make the Zimbabwean national swimming team. Only in swimming does he escape the hatred and exclusion that his albinism brings him. But when he has to stay with his grandmother for a while, the trauma of the terrible thing that happened to him in the past comes rushing back.
Can Ambuya help Tumi by revealing her own shocking past - a story riddled with racial hatred in war-torn Rhodesia, featuring murder and an illegal love? And what of Tumi's suspicions that she was involved in his nightmare?
From the author of HOPE IS OUR ONLY WING. Rutendo Nomsa Tavengerwei lived and studied in Zimbabwe until the age of eighteen, when she moved to South Africa to study Law at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has just completed a Masters at the World Trade Institute, and is now working at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
HOPE IS OUR ONLY WING was her debut novel - and THE COLOURS THAT BLIND is her second novel. A breathtaking teen novel set in Zimbabwe about freedom, inter-generational friendships and forgiving the past. Talented new author with a distinctive voice Rich descriptions of life in Zimbabwe - with sights, smells and themes of political corruption woven into the story Authentic storytelling - the author was born and grew up in the culture she is writing about Potential prizewinner Inspired by a true story Rights to HOPE IS OUR ONLY WING have been sold to the US (Soho Press) and Brazil (Editora Kapulana).
