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Vera, Yvonne The Stone Virgins: A Novel
New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux February 1, 200 0-374-27008-2 / 9780374270087 Hardcover Very Good/Very Good+
A tight crisp first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper: "All they want is to come and go as they please." With simple poetic words, Zimbabwean writer Vera brings home the daily struggle in her country, from the harsh repression of the long colonial regime through the fight for independence and the horrifying brutality of the civil war. She focuses on two sisters, Thenjiwe and Nonceba, and the rural community of Kezi where they live. The brilliant opening chapters are set in Kezi's village store, where the people wait for news from those who have left for the city, and the bus brings back messages and packages (some of them empty) as well as returning migrants happy to be strangers at home. Then comes the war, and the women grab their new role as freedom fighters, but the dreams of independence are shattered in a new world of land mines, roadblocks, and guns. Without sensationalism or heroics, this searing novel speaks of dislocation, terror, betrayal, and strength.
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1000.00 JPY
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