Originally published: January 1, 1998
Author: Yvonne Vera
Genres: Fiction, Romance novel, and Bildungsroman
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Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late l940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a construction worker, meets the much ...
Yvonne Vera's novel, Butterfly Burning is about search for catharsis, for the triumph of healing and beauty over wounds and chaos. The novel breaks the silence ...
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Sep 12, 2000 · Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late l940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a construction worker, ...
Set in the mid-1940s, in the black township of Makokoba in Bulawayo (Rhodesia), Butterfly Burning tells the story of the love between the 50-year old Fumbatha ...
Gertrude was a prostitute and was killed by a jealous client as Phephelaphi looked on. Her memory of this traumatic event is hazy and focuses on the recurring ...