<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8fc8c652-8905-45ad-9361-e7eec96b156c/576FD042-BB7B-4BA5-9765-BB40F1ED34A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/pettina-gappah-dancing-champion" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/pettina-gappah-dancing-champion" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/pettina-gappah-dancing-champion"><H1>Petina Gappah reads The Mupandawana Dancing Champion</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/pettina-gappah-dancing-champion"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">The much-praised Zimbabwean author reads from her debut short story collection, An Elegy for Easterly</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/pettina-gappah-dancing-champion"><LI class="picture"> <P class="thumbnail"> <A class="link-image" name="&lid={packagesAndManualTrailblock}{Interview: Petina Gappah}&lpos={trail}{1}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe"> <IMG height="84" width="140" alt="Pettina Gappah" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/6/11/1244720675935/Pettina-Gappah-004.jpg" /> </A> </p> <P> <A class="link-text" name="&lid={packagesAndManualTrailblock}{Interview: Petina Gappah}&lpos={trail}{2}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe">'I am not the voice of Zimbabwe'</A> </p> <P><STRONG>Petina Gappah</STRONG>'s much-praised first book is a rare chance for British readers to read a Zimbabwean author. But as she tells Richard Lea, she speaks for herself, not her country</p> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/pettina-gappah-dancing-champion"><DIV class="factbox book"> <OL> <LI class="inline major-heading"><B> An Elegy for Easterly</B></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">by Petina Gappah</LI> <LI class="inline"> pp274,</LI> <LI class="inline"> Faber,</LI> <LI class="inline"> £12.99</LI> <LI class="picture"><IMG height="219" width="140" alt="" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/4/16/1239891276849/An-Elegy-for-Easterly-by--001.jpg" /></LI> </OL> <OL class="sublist"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780571246939">Buy An Elegy for Easterly at the Observer bookshop</A></LI> </OL> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/pettina-gappah-dancing-champion"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/B49BA9F8-2811-41FC-A2E2-52AE9DA23F30" alt="Books podcast" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/576FD042-BB7B-4BA5-9765-BB40F1ED34A3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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