ZIMBABWEAN writer John Eppel’s literary career has always been defined by one peculiar trait. He publishes fictional work, in stark contrast to the majority of the country’s other white writers who have fetishised the autobiographical mode. During the post-2000s period, white Zimbabwean narratives of crisis which focused on the land reform programme gained an international following. Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle was fought primarily over the land question. In colonial Rhodesia, racist apportionment of fertile land meant that the black majority was removed from productive farmland. The land reform programme sought to correct this historical injustice. Eppel’s focus on novels, poetry and…