Butterfly Burning
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, hewants 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, w…
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Weitere Autoren: Vera, Yvonne
- ISBN: 978-0-374-29186-0
- EAN: 9780374291860
- Produktnummer: 19458359
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.8 cm 211 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 211
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Yvonne Vera
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