City of Kings trilogy bundle

From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, the complete collection of her multiple award-winning City of Kings trilogy, includingThe Theory of Flight,The History of Man,andThe Quality of Mercy

"Perhaps the most monumental trilogy to come out of Southern Africa" (Afrocritik) InThe Theory of FlightNdlovu sketches decades of history in an unnamed Southern African nation through the story of Imogen "Genie" Zula Nyoni, who lies in a coma after battling a long illness. As loved ones struggle to come to terms with their impending loss, Ndlovu recounts the lives of Genie's forebears from colonial occupation through the freedom struggle.

InThe History of ManEmil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is left unmoored by the end of his country's civil war. His journey from boyhood to manhood, and the changes that befall him through love, loss, and war, will leave a path of bloodshed in his wake.

InThe Quality of Mercyboth the path of his life and destiny of his country.