Without a Name at once shocks with its violence and astounds with its beauty. In prose that reads like poetry, Yvonne Vera charts the course of a young woman, Mazvita, as she journeys from rural Muba
Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult FictionAn uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting proseIn 1980, after decades
Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township of Bulawayo, in the late 1940s, the novel tells the stor
Fiction. African & African American Studies. Short Stories. New Edition with an introduction by M G Vassanji. The place is white-ruled Rhodesia of the seventies (now Zimbabwe), the exile the Afric
New edition, with an introduction by MG Vassanji.In the late nineteenth century white settlers and administrators arrive to occupy the African country of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Nehanda, a village girl,