When He Lands in Harare North, Our Unnamed Protagonist Carries Nothing but a Cardboard Suitcase Full of Memories and an Email Address for His Childhood Friend, Shingi. Finessing His Way Through Immigration, He Spends a Few Restless Weeks As the Very Unwelcome Guest in His Cousin's Home Before Tracking Down Shingi in a Brixton Squat. in This Astonishing, Revelatory Original Debut, Caine Prize Winner Brian Chikwava Tackles Head-On the Realities of Life As a Refugee. This is the Story of a Stranger in a Strange Land - One of the Thousands of Illegal Zimbabwean Immigrants Seeking a Better Life in England - With a Past He is Determined to Hide. From the First Line the Language Fizzes With Energy, Humour and Not a Little Menace. As He Struggles to Make His Life in London (The 'Harare North' of the Title) and Battles With the Weight of What He Has Left Behind in a Strife-Torn Zimbabwe, Every Expectation and Preconception (Both His and Ours) is Turned on Its Head. The Inhabitants of the Squat