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NAME or PEN NAME:    John Parker                     

BOOK TITLE & BOOK ID (If available):  ZIMBABWE 436651

1. What inspired you to write this book?

I was inspired to write this book after back-packing all over Africa on safari to study the wildlife, and also to learn about the agricultural policies adopted there. My digressions as I sojourned off the tourist trail induced me to within countries which were not democratic. My bilingual adroitness allowed me to meet many local people and get their point of view about what their true opinions were regarding the way dictators governed their country. My observations about how the lives of the citizens were affected by the suppression dictators impose on their citizens, along with my farming background, and my knowledge of British colonial history in Africa, inspired me to write this book.

2. Summarize your book in one to three sentences as if you were speaking to someone unfamiliar with your book and its topic.

Zimbabwe is a fictional book of satirical indie humour about a country ruled by a dictator. The story denotes a wry and often cruel dénouement regarding the consequences of dictatorships, and also presents a supposition on how the lives if the citizens within them are affected. Comparisons are subtly implied which suggests indications that Africa may well be a better continent today if colonial powers were still in government.

3. What is the overall theme (central topic, subject or concept) of your book?

The theme of the book is about Robert Mugabe’s land reform policy in Zimbabwe and how he tried to drive the white Zimbabweans out of Africa. This corrupt and racist attitude towards the white Zimbabweans from the British colonial days made them stand together and fight back. The literary composition is about one such family, who were originally from Scotland, that retaliated in the usual stiff upper lip British fashion and the comical results of their actions.

4. Where does this book take place?

The story begins in Ayrshire in Scotland and the Navajo reservation in the U.S.A. then leads to Zimbabwe where the story blossoms to a conclusion with hilarious consequences.

5. Who are the main characters and why are they important to the story?

There are many comical characters in the book. Firstly there are three Scottish farmers and their Native American Navajo squaws who have three murderous sons that go out to Zimbabwe to help their eldest brother save his farm. There they meet up with their brother, his son and his daughter. She has been raised an old Scottish scoundrel who grew up in the Deep South of the U.S.A. and still presides over many of the old Deep South prejudices. There is also a Russian arms dealer in the story and Robert Mugabe with all his band of hilarious characters. The literary composition will tend to veer the reader that both black and white people are guilty of a slightly tribal built in prejudicial disposition, and how fickle the human race can be. The characters are important to the story as it is they who provide the humour.

6. Why do you think that this book will appeal to readers?

Many literary critics are now saying there is not enough humour being written nowadays. Zimbabwe is unique written by an author with a sharp sense of humour. The moral of the book is to demonstrate the instability in character that makes up the human psyche and to find the humour that lies beneath.

7. How is your book relevant in today’s society?

The story provides a suggestion that both democratic societies and dictatorships affect the population’s wealth in different ways but the human psyche remains the same in both.

8. Is there any subject currently trending in the news that relates to your book?

Yes. The African Union League of Nations have been meeting for fifty years, and many World Leaders are saying it is merely a hiding place for brutal dictators who suppress their citizens and carry out atrocities, while doing nothing to make a difference to provide a better life for their citizens.

9. What makes your book different from other books like it?

Too many authors are too scared to touch the subject of the differences between races for fear of being branded racist. This liturgy describes it from the point of view of all concerned and tends to suggest that every human being does have a tribal disposition within their psyche.

10. What do you want readers to take away from your writing?

To have a good laugh as the book is all written in the name of comedy. More importantly, to realize that Africa is in a worse state now than it ever was, and perhaps to agree, that many colonial powers did more for the country they established as a colony than the modern day African ruler has since their revolution.

11. How did you learn about the topic? (i.e. personal experience, education, etc.)

My interests are modern British history, writing comedy, traveling and photography. I have a farming background and many relations all over the world who emigrated around the British Commonwealth. While I prefer to tutor myself in my writing dexterity or any other intellectual allegiance, I acquired a handy knowledge of various languages to assist me on foreign shores. Through my bilingual adroitness and my experiences while I backpacked all over the world gave me a different perspective into the places I sojourned through and the people I met along the way

12. Is there a particular passage from your book you’d like us to utilize? If so, please provide.

I would like to give examples of some of the dialogue from the characters in the book.

Quote from Pa Zach:

“Robert Mugabe… is a man with few delusions about himself but a great many about everything else!” Pa Zach began, then continuing in his own celestial debonair fashion. “His regime’s incompetence at home, has led to its aggression to, and subversion of, the white people of Zimbabwe, who were the true heroes of discovery of the country we British knew as Rhodesia. But alas, every institution carries within it not only the seeds of its own dissolution but prepares the way for its own most hated rival…. As for myself, merely as a well-bred man, I cannot bear this enormity…. Placing a white man’s liberty in a state of darkness, wherein we can neither hear nor say nothing of it, is also, as a well-bred man, an enormity I cannot bear…”

Description of Stagger Lee:

He was a loner without a plan. He’d ploughed a lone furrow in a life of debauchery. He was a resilient man and as tough as a one-eared alley cat. Self restraint had eluded him throughout life and he was most susceptible to the female charm of the black women belonging to the Shona tribe. His recidivism to their charm had bestowed upon him seventeen bouts of herpes, sixteen of gonorrhoea and twenty-one of chlamydia, but even that still hadn’t sent him to an eternal grave.

Quote from Fidel Castro:

“Coño! Chins without beards deserve no honour.”

Passage about Robert Mugabe:

Back in Harare, at the Presidential Palace, Robert Mugabe was moping over the death of his little pygmy dwarf lover, Boner. He gazed out the window as the morning mist lifted over an orange grove in the vast palace garden and revealed the pond, smothered by a canopy of white butterflies quenching their thirst. Suddenly they all took flight together in a plethora of soulfulness, leaving a ripple on the surface of the water which ruffled the reflection of a lone morning star. He swiftly pirouetted around and mournfully looked up into his prodigious lounge, fixing his eyes in melancholy sadness at the ropes, trestles, and hooks on the ceiling while he held little Boner’s rubber Red Baron flying suit in his hands. He felt abandoned. Little Boner had been the driving force behind his sexual fetishes. With him now departed, Mugabe felt like the archetypical soldier with the amputated leg, whose phantom limb still ached after being severed.

Quotes from Hannah Jane:

“Yeah Daddy-o!” cried Hannah Jane. “ Assa sure issa itchin’ t’ open up a can o’ whoop ass on da somnovabitch!”

“Jesus mighty!” replied Hannah Jane, covering her face. “Y’all go right ahead ’n’ do whotja like with this un … He got breath like a buffalo fart!”

Final Quote:

Nemo me impune lacessit

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PERSONAL INFORMATION:

1. Please supply us with an author bio. Do not include anything you do not want shared with the media.

John Parker was born an Ayrshire farmer’s boy on the 1st January 1964 in the West of Scotland. After traveling the world, mainly by himself, he now prefers to spend his time between his house in Gourock, Scotland and his home on La Isla de la Juventud, Cuba.

2. What other books have you written?

I wrote ‘Escape Route’ which is about the many ridiculously comical tight spots I experienced during my backpacking journeys.

3. Do you have an existing website? If so, please provide the web address.



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Book Title: Zimbabwe

Project ID: 436651

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|Date: 25 / 5 / 2013 |

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