Title: Trials and tribulations
Description: A first person narrative by a female protagonist, Mairesi, about life in a mine compound in Zimbabwe, about her growth to adulthood, marriage, and loss. Describes the poverty and deprivation of the people in the mines, indicts colonialism, and shows how people adapt and survive and try to go on living normal domestic lives--From back cover.
Subjects: Mining camps, Fiction, Families, Marriage, Man-woman relationships, Social conditions