Fiction typically needs no foreword. It stands alone, availing itself to the reader through a contract known as the suspension of disbelief, aloof to the literary graces sometimes required of its factual counterpart, Non-fiction.
Edifice Abandoned is unusual.
Edifice AbandonedThe description of the Great Zimbabwe in this novel is not entirely fictionalized, and neither are certain salient facts about this edifice, for which the country is named. The cover background, for instance, is a photo of one of its portals. The size of the complex at eighteen hundred acres is factual, as is the estimate of twenty-thousand people housed there at its apex.
In my fictional peregrinations, I have found it easy to delve into cultures having solid representation in the pantheons of western literature a
