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One love story is between a white boy and a mixed race girl, and spans more than a decade of tumultuous, postindependence times in the southern african. Irene sabatinis captivating first novel, the boy next door, offers readers a rare and often painfully honest glimpse into life in postindependent zimbabwe. Listen to the boy next door audiobook by irene sabatini and. In bulawayo, zimbabwe, there is a tragedy in the house next door to lindiwe bishop. Confused about her racial identity, young lindiwe withdraws to her books and can hardly speak to others, certainly not to the seventeenyearold boy next door who fascinates her. The book follows her for about 15 years of her life, starting from when shes a 14yo girl intrigued by the older white boy next door although with flashbacks to earlier times than that. One of the most interesting aspects of this book is that ian white boy appears to have the. In bulawayo, zimbabwe, there is a tragedy in the house next door to lindiwe bishopher neighbor has.
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