WHEN THE MIGHTY FALL: rise again mindgames

by Simon Chilembo

When the mighty fall from glory and grace, to rise again, all they need is love. Just as he thought he had had it all, and life couldn’t get any better, a seasoned man of the world is found by the love of his life in the most unlikely of circumstances. This is the story of triumphs, trials, and tribulations of a man in the midst of forbidden love, and own soul searching at home, and in the Diaspora. Shuttling across time in at least three countries, South Africa, the land of his birth; Zambia, where he grew up, and Norway, where he became a man, he takes the reader along through open fields of love, faith, and hope. These fields are bordered with the need to understand the sociology of things, clash of cultures, family relations, friendship, codes of secrecy, fate, loneliness, loss, grief, disillusionment, and depression. There are also vices of jealousy and awe, betrayal, ignorance, racism, manipulation, religious fundamentalism, sexism, misogyny, and violence against women to deal with; including concepts, as well as practices of politics, family honour, money, power, business, mysticism, fantasy, feminism, resilience, creativity, innovation, and hard choices.
What does a mother do when her children become international terrorists waging a centuries old non-winnable global religious hegemony war? What does a man do when, during long, dark hours of depression watches his prestige, wealth, and riches go out the window incessantly? What does a man do when in the autumn of his life, his previously unknown children show up all grown up, and come knocking on his doors? To find out, buy the book, read on, and enjoy.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 29, 2015