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The peaks of the Chimanimani Mountains have long been described as the ""Silent Sentinels"" of Zimbabwe's eastern border. For generations, they offered more than just a breathtaking skyline; they provided sanctuary, cool mists, and a sense of eternal permanence. To those born in their shadows, the mountains were not merely rock and soil-they were ancestors in stone. But in March 2019, the silence was shattered. Cyclone Idai did not just bring rain; it brought a transformation of the physical world that defied logic. In a matter of hours, the geography of home was erased. Rivers forgot their banks, and the very mountainsides-saturated beyond their limit-liquefied into a vertical ocean of mud and boulders. When the sun rose, the landscape was unrecognizable. Entire villages had been replaced by jagged scars of red earth. The Silent Mountain is a work of fiction, yet it is birthed from the very real mud and tears of that season. It is a story dedicated to the ""Johannesburg Ghosts""-the thousands of Zimbabweans living in the diaspora who watched through the cold glow of their smartphones as their world disappeared, powerless to cross the flooded borders or reach the silent phone lines of their loved ones. Through the journey of Tinashe Sithole, we explore the specific, agonizing weight of survivor's guilt. It is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, personified by the real and imagined heroes who dug with their bare hands when the machines could not reach them. This book is for the families whose loved ones were carried by the floodwaters into Mozambique, for those whose homes are now marked only by a massive, immovable boulder, and for the children who still jump at the sound of a heavy rain. The mountains are silent once again. But for those who survived, the silence is no longer empty-it is filled with the names of those the earth reclaimed. This is their story.

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