Deslocado Redemption

By Chris Cocks A Story of Africa    ISBN 978-1-791969-38-7 R350.00 + shipping Softcover / 205 pages

Fiction

Deslocado Redemption Deslocado is Portuguese for ‘displaced’. This is a story of redemption set in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique in the mid-1990s, a time of nervous energy, opportunity and fear, in a region that has only recently emerged from bitter colonial wars of independence and subsequent civil wars. The peace is delicate and rancorous, racial attitudes coagulate, and retribution is borne on the wind of change. It is here, in 1995, in the steaming Mozambican port city of Beira, a cauldron of venality and intrigue, that Mike, a white Zimbabwean and former soldier, meets Phoebe, a black prostitute. .

Deslocado Redemption Chris Cocks was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1957 as the sun was setting on the British Empire. He saw service in the ‘bush war’; his two autobiographical accounts—Fire Force: A Trooper’s War in the Rhodesian Light Infantry and Out of Action (formerly Survival Course: Rhodesian Dénouement and the War of Self) —evoke the era. Fire Force is now regarded as a classic on war and has sold over 40,000 copies.His novel, Deslocado Redemption, set in Beira, Mozambique, explores post-colonial racial attitudes in southern Africa, while A Colonial Boy: The Soundtrack of an African Childhood examines the author’s childhood. He lives in Nelspruit.

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