Yvonne Vera, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $13 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-52816-4
With a poetic flair for transforming the earthly into the surreal, the critically acclaimed Vera sets out in these two chaotic novellas to describe life during Zimbabwe's civil war in the late 1970s. Cadence and enigmatic descriptions are her...
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Yvonne Vera, Author . FSG $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-27008-7
At times bordering on a prose poem, this dense, kaleidoscopic novel by Zimbabwean author Vera (Butterfly Burning) is set against the civil war that ravaged her country in the early 1980s, shortly after Zimbabwe won its independence from Britain. The
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Yvonne Vera, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-29186-0
In the 1940s, the choices for women in British-ruled Zimbabwe were depressingly few, as Vera (thrice shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize-African region) illustrates in this slim scorcher. Beautiful, innocent Phephelaphi appears to middle-a
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