{"id":206,"date":"2016-11-12T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2016-11-12T18:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:58:29","slug":"novel-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/culture-of-zambia\/novel-the-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel:  The Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Bridge&#8221; sizzling African-Irish romance adventure novel back cover reads: &#8220;An African man is riding in a taxi north of Belfast on a dirt road in Northern Ireland with great urgency. A Middle-aged Irish woman is driving south, on the same dirt road, from her small Irish village. The unlikely couple finally meets at their Internet secretly pre-arranged rendezvous on the rural road under the most inauspicious circumstances, in a romantic face-to-face encounter. A Police Squad car and an ambulance soon arrive on the scene and the African man is arrested.<\/p>\n<p>This is the dramatic beginning of the transoceanic love story between Trish and Kamthibi. Because of compelling circumstances beyond their control, Kamthibi agrees to take Trish with him to visit his boyhood village in Zambia in Africa. Kamthibi and Trish develop a deep passionate romantic love for each other, which leads them to cross so many bridges.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2016\/11\/Bridge.jpg\" alt=\"The Bridge\" width=\"303\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Bridge.jpg 303w, https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Bridge-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/>The novel is now available on amazon.com or click here for Google Books. Please search for \u201cThe Bridge Tembo\u201d to order the book. If you order the book through Amazon, I will autograph it for you. The novel titled: \u201cThe Bridge\u201d is published in Lusaka by Julubbi Publisher which is a very small and admittedly ill equipped to play with the big boys. The challenging part now is the marketing. If you want to buy it, you can go Book World at Manda Hill shopping Mall in Lusaka. The e-mail address of the distributor in Lusaka is seebro@zamnet.zm. The cell phone number in Lusaka is 095-761375. Please ask for: \u201cThe Bridge\u201d novel.<\/p>\n<p>There will be more novels in the series later if this one sells successfully. Please send this e-mail to as many Zambians and friends you know as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Published in 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Bridge&#8221; sizzling African-Irish romance adventure novel back cover reads: &#8220;An African man is riding in a taxi north of Belfast on a dirt road in Northern Ireland with great urgency. A Middle-aged Irish woman is driving south, on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/culture-of-zambia\/novel-the-bridge\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":172,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mtembo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}