Nehanda - Brossura

Vera, Yvonne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0920661416 ISBN 13: 9780920661413

Casa editrice: Mawenzi House Pub, 1995

Riassunto

Fiction. African American Studies. Set in Yvonne Vera's native country of Zimbabwe, NEHANDA tells the story of a late nineteenth century village where a young woman has been given a divine calling: the gift to inspire a war. Told in beautifully lucid and evocative prose, this is the portrait of resistance and struggle, a tale of a people's first meeting with colonialism. A stunning, beautiful and poetic novel. --The Herald (Zimbabwe)

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Yvonne Vera was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Her works Why Don?t You Carve Other Animals and Nehanda were short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Award Africa Region in 1993 and 1994, respectively.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

In a Zimbabwe village, in the late nineteenth century, amidst disturbing reports of strangers on their land, people gather to perform ceremonies to wecome a new-born. They call her Nehanda, and she had come bearing signs of specialness. When Nehanda grows into a young woman the nature of her gift finaly becomes evident. She has been chosen by the ancestral spirits to inspire a war against the invaders, who have attined a strangehold on the land. And so the course of events unfolds, leading to its inevitable conclusion.

Told in beautifully lucid and evocative prose, this is the story of a people's first meeting with colonialism.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mawenzi House Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0920661416
• ISBN 13: 9780920661413
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 104