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Yvonne Vera

    19 settembre 1964 – 7 aprile 2005

    Yvonne Vera è acclamata per la sua prosa poetica e i suoi personaggi femminili resilienti, che esplorano in profondità temi difficili e il passato impegnativo dello Zimbabwe. I suoi romanzi sono apprezzati per la loro prospettiva unica sulla letteratura africana postcoloniale, esaminando l'impatto psicologico della storia sugli individui. Vera si concentra sulla vita interiore dei suoi personaggi, con la sua scrittura che spesso rispecchia le dure realtà che hanno affrontato.

    Seelen im Exil
    De stenen maagden
    Eine Frau ohne Namen
    Butterfly Burning
    Opening Spaces
    The stone virgins
    • The stone virgins

      • 165pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      A gentle but fearless book, The Stone Virgins explores the emotional and physical scars caused by warfare, and enables us to respond truthfully to the catastrophic depths of conflict.

      The stone virgins
      4,5
    • Opening Spaces

      An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing

      • 186pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      African women are seldom given the space to express their concerns, their ideas and their reflections about the societies in which they live. In situations where a good woman is expected to remain silent, literature can provide an important medium for the expression of deeply-felt and sometimes shocking views. In this anthology the award-winning author Yvonne Vera brings together the stories of many talented writers from different parts of Africa. The act as witnesses to the dramas of private and public life. Their stories challenge contemporary attitudes and behaviour, leaving no room for complacency.

      Opening Spaces
      3,6
    • 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 l940s, 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 which birth had severed him." He in turn fills her "with hope larger than memory." But Phephelaphi is not satisfied with their "one-room" love alone. The qualities that drew Fumbatha to her, her sense of independence and freedom, end up separating them. And the closely woven fabric of township life, where everyone knows everyone else, has a mesh too tight and too intricate to allow her to escape her circumstances on her own. Vera exploits language to peel away the skin of public and private lives. In Butterfly Burning she captures the ebullience and the bitterness of township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.

      Butterfly Burning
      3,7
    • Eine Nominee für den Commonwealth Writers Award 1994, Afrika-Region, verfolgt das Leben einer Emigrantin aus Simbabwe, einer Frau, die sich auf der Flucht vor dem Bürgerkrieg in ihrer Heimat durch Afrika bewegt. Ein Debütroman.

      Eine Frau ohne Namen
      4,5
    • De stenen maagden

      • 191pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Twee jaar nadat Rhodesië de zwaarbevochten onafhankelijkheid van Engeland heeft verworven, barst in het nieuwe Zimbabwe een wrede burgeroorlog uit. De zusjes Nonceba en Thenjiwe worden op een gruwelijke manier geconfronteerd met de situatie in hun land. Op hun zoektocht naar waardigheid en een nieuw bestaan krijgen ze te maken met brute terreur, maar ook met schoonheid en zelfopoffering. De ene zus vindt een reden voor nieuwe hoop, de andere overleeft het niet.

      De stenen maagden
      3,0
    • Seelen im Exil

      Erzählungen

      • 169pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      Fiktion. Der Ort ist das weiß beherrschte Rhodesien der siebziger Jahre (heute Zimbabwe), das Exil der Afrikaner in ihrem eigenen Land. Junge Männer und Frauen fliehen aus ihren Dörfern, um sich den Freiheitskämpfern in den Wäldern anzuschließen. Diese Geschichten, die während der Jahre des bewaffneten Kampfes spielen, erzählen von dem anderen Kampf, dem Überleben derjenigen, die zurückgeblieben sind. Yvonne Vera, geboren in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, erzählt ihre Geschichten aus der Perspektive von Frauen in lyrischer, aber ungekünstelter Prosa und rekreiert die düstere Atmosphäre dieser Monate voller Angst und Hoffnung.

      Seelen im Exil
    • Vuurvlinder

      • 189pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      In een Zuid-Afrikaanse township in de jaren veertig probeert een jonge zwarte vrouw een zelfstandig leven op te bouwen.

      Vuurvlinder