Love, Marry, Kill

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Two couples. One steamy affair. And ninety-nine other problems.

Owami meets a man and believes they will live happily ever after. Three children later, she realises all that she thought they had wasn’t true when she finds out that her husband has rekindled a relationship with an ex-girlfriend. She escapes to her parents but fear for the future of her children and some manipulation from her in-laws and her mother, leads her to return to her marital home. This time, with open eyes. 

Akani believes he has married close to the perfect girl. But when he quits his job to start a company and his wife becomes the main breadwinner, he notices that he has become a junior partner in what used to be a relationship of equals. Unable to deal with this state of affairs, he leaves home. Family intervention leads him back home to his wife and just when he thinks he can safely balance his loving life at home and the secret his wife knows nothing about, tragedy strikes. 

Then on a rainy Johannesburg evening, Owami meets Akani and they both fall hopelessly in love. An intense relationship begins between the two and whatever they have found together, no marriage can put asunder. As they shoulder the weighty secrets and emotional baggage of their pasts, they must also weather the storms that threaten to separate them.

Zukiswa Wanner’s fifth novel is a thrilling tale of scorned love, resilience, healing love, retribution, losing yet finding oneself in love, and consequences.

Zukiswa Wanner

Zukiswa Wanner is the author of novels The Madams (2006), Behind Every Successful Man (2008), Men of the South (2010) and London Cape Town Joburg (2014); four children's books; a travel book; a satirical nonfiction work and a long form essay on Palestine:  Vignettes of a People in an Apartheid State.  She is a 2022 Moi University African Cluster Centre Fellow, 2018 JIAS Fellow and 2016 DIVA (Danish International Visiting Artist).  Wanner's accolades include being selected among  2020's New African 100 Most Influential Africans  and Brittle Paper's  Literary Person of the Year in the same year. She has edited three multinational anthologies and has contributed to a few. Wanner's work has been translated into Portuguese, French, Spanish and Kiswahili. She has given several keynote addresses across the world on literature in Africa and black feminisms. You can hear her distinctive laugh in an African city near you without notice.

“Love Marry Kill is quite like a box of cyanide-dipped chocolates: Delicious, dark, and deadly. [Zukiswa] Wanner is at her scathingly witty best.”

—Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu (Writer/Editor/Illustrator)

“A gripping story of love, heartbreak, and family. Zukiswa Wanner’s fifth novel confirms what we, her readers, have always known: she is a master storyteller and one of the greatest of our time.”

—Ukamaka Olisakwe, author of Ogadinma

“Zukiswa Wanner is a generational talent. In Love Marry Kill, she brings her sharp and witty observations to the domestic to tell a profound and deeply moving story. A brilliant novel from one of Africa’s finest.”

—Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, author of When We Were Fireflies

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Book Trim151 x 235mm
Number of Pages272
ISBN (Paperback)978-978-60090-5-6
Release DateSeptember 4, 2024
GenreContemporary Fiction, Romance

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