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Butterfly Burning: A Novel
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Butterfly Burning: A Novel Soft cover - 2000

by Vera, Yvonne

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"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. Vera captures the ebullience and bitterness to township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Fine. Cover by Lynn Buckley. 28439 shelf. Slim trade paperback, photo sienna covers. Slightly age-toned paper. No names, clean text. Author born in Zimbabwe.
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  • Title Butterfly Burning: A Novel
  • Author Vera, Yvonne
  • Illustrator Cover by Lynn Buckley
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition 1st Edition thus
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 151
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 063835
  • ISBN 9780374291860 / 0374291861
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.51 x 0.47 in (20.83 x 14.00 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: Southern Africa
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Young women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00028834
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2000, Page 2117
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2000, Page 917
  • Library Journal, 09/15/2000, Page 115
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/2000, Page 58
  • School Library Journal, 01/01/2000, Page 917

About the author

Yvonne Vera is one of Zimbabwe's best known authors. She was born in Bulawayo, where she now works as the director of the National Gallery. Her novels include Without a Name, and Under the Tongue, which recevied the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region).

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