Butterfly Burning A Novel

Name: Butterfly Burning A Novel
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ISBN: 9780374291860

ISBN-10: 0374291861

ISBN-13: 9780374291860

Edition: 2000

Authors: Yvonne Vera, Y. Vera

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Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late l940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a construction worker, meets the much younger Phephelaphi, he"wants her like the land beneath his feet from which birth had severed him." He in turn fills her "with hope larger than memory." But Phephelaphi is not satisfied with their "one-room" love alone. The qualities that drew Fumbatha to her, her sense of independence and freedom, end up separating them. And the closely woven fabric of township life, where everyone knows everyone else, has a…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/12/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.28" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.330

Terence Ranger is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Zimbabwe.