The Stone Virgins - Softcover

Vera, Yvonne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374528942 ISBN 13: 9780374528942

Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2003

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Book by Vera Yvonne

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"Yvonne Vera writes with magnificent luminosity. The Stone Virgins is a song about the author's people, and the tragedy of their lives and their loves, contrasted against the sheer beauty of their land. It may yet prove to be one of the notable novels of the twenty-first century." --Ama Ata Aidoo

"Yvonne Vera brings to this novel her extraordinary gift of sidelong and oblique entry into the heart of things using the total environment, trees, sky, river, rocks, and mountains--they are themselves characters--to express human emotion. Her treatment of love is unusual and strikingly original bringing out its redemptive power which triumphs over the horrors of war and human cruelty." --Eldred D. Jones, Editor, African Literature Today

"The Stone Virgins is Vera at her lyrical best. Her affinity for visual art comes through in her writing. Her descriptions are painted, by turns, in bold palette-knife applied strokes and delicate pastel colors. The novel exudes compassion, tolerance and sensitivity-- the three hallmarks of great writing. Post-colonial African literature is led by Zimbabwean writers and she is the by far the most imaginative and original voice among them." --Zakes Mda

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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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• Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374528942
• ISBN 13: 9780374528942
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184