The Stone Virgins - Brossura

Vera, Yvonne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374528942 ISBN 13: 9780374528942

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003

Riassunto

A story set against the civil unrest of Zimbabwe in the early 1980s finds two sisters from the country town of Kezi struggling for survival in the face of terrible brutality and struggling with the rival temptations of town and city life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing

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L'autore:

Yvonne Vera was born in Bulawayo, where she is now director of the National Gallery. She is the author of Butterfly Burning (FSG, 2000), and Without a Name and Under the Tongue (FSG, 2002).

Product Description:

Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction An uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled the begining of brutal civil unrest that would last nearly a half decade more. With "The Stone Virgins" Yvonne Vera examines the dissident movement from the perspective of two sisters living in a small township outside of Bulawayo. In a portrait painted in successive impressions of life before and after the liberation, Vera explores the quest for dignity and a centered existence against a backdrop of unimaginable violence; the twin instincts of survival and love; the rival pulls of township and city life; and mankind's capacity for terror, beauty, and sacrifice. One sister will find a reason for hope. One will not make it through alive. Weaving historical fact within a story of grand passions and striking endurance, Vera has gifted us with a powerful and provocative testament to the resilience of the Zimbabwean people.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374528942
• ISBN 13: 9780374528942
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192