TY  - BOOK
A1  - Ndlovu, Vivienne
T1  - For Want of a Totem
N2  - Zonipha is a rural girl newly inaugurated into the city as a domestic worker. Ambitious but righteous, she seeks to improve herself. Life disagrees and Zonipha finds herself ensnared by an abusive man, her employer. Unable to escape, she falls pregnant with a child who can never know his father, and following her unhappy decision will never know his mother. Fate intervenes at a tuckshop when Eugenia, who has longed for child, discovers the abandoned baby. In doing so, she pioneers a movement that seems to defy culture as she tries to encourage the idea of adoption. For Want of a Totem explores the meaning of family and what it means to be a parent. If a child is abandoned, who must raise her. This short but moving novel raised important questions about culture and its adaptability as it responds to contemporary and sometimes contentious issues.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/59601
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-596016
SN  - 1-77922-330-7
SN  - 978-1-77922-330-2
PB  - Weaver Press
CY  - Harare, Zimbabwe
ER  -