Torment of an Angel

By Theresa Lungu

Torment of An Angel is a story of survival in contemporary Zambia. A nation that is westernized yet still under developed, where great wealth and extreme poverty sleep side by side and the worst disease of the 21st century has altered the way people live and love, forever. "Sometimes I am a flaming comet streaking across the sky with purpose and sometimes I am ash in the hearth, cold and useless," Kiyana Phiri, a journalist in Lusaka, says of her quest to live and thrive in a society where poverty and corruption have a relentless grip and women do not always earn their dues when they juggle ambition, family, tradition and culture. Refusing to be part of the brain drain robbing Zambia of professionals, Kiyana writes an anti-government column for a newspaper. The death of her best friend from AIDS brings her to the realization that angry words alone would not bring the changes she longs to see in her country.Tasso Makumba has lost his law practice and he has just learned that his mother committed suicide. Withdrawn and wary of life, he must start over with the responsibility and independence he had never bothered to acquire. When Tasso runs into Kiyana, whom he had first met seventeen years earlier on the Copperbelt where they both grew up, he must win his battles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1494397161
• ISBN13: 9781494397166
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.1" x 6.1"