- Young women, Fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Young women, fiction
"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 story of Phephelaphi, who glows with vitality and a secret sense of her own freedom and independence.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Yvonne Vera
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Fayard, Baobab Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781466806078
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