Rotten Row

In her accomplished new story collection, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in Zimbabwe to explore the causes and effects of crime, and to meditate on the nature of justice.

Rotten Row represents a leap in artistry and achievement from the award-winning author of

An Elegy for Easterly and

The Book of Memory. With compassion and humour, Petina Gappah paints portraits of lives aching for meaning to produce a moving and universal tableau.



Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut collection,

An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009. Her debut novel,

The Book of Memory, was published in 2015.