Butterfly Burning
A Fiction, Cultural, Feminism book. This is a beautiful collection of words, and the story at the...
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 1940s, 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...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780374291860 / 374291861
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This is a beautiful collection of words, and the story at the heart of it is devastating. Yet the poetic style obscures the narrative. When I read Under the Tongue a bunch of years ago I couldn't quite get into it. Whether it was the book or me, or both, I don't know; but Vera's writing is very busy, the kind that in a lesser writer would reek of thesaurus overuse. and at that moment I didn't quite think the payoff was worth the effort I had to make to piece it together.... Beautifully written. Lyrical. Spare and efficient writing as a poem. I loved reading this book and "listening" to the words in my head.
