It is just after nine o`clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes & thirteen seconds.` Rotten Row` is the Criminal Division of Harare, & the courts & the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning & redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender & sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes & effects of crime & the nature of justice.