The Stone Virgins

by Yvonne Vera

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Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction

An uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose

In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled the begining of brutal civil unrest that would last nearly a half decade more.

With The Stone Virgins Yvonne Vera examines the dissident movement from the perspective of two sisters living in a small township outside of...

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  • ISBN10 0374528942
  • ISBN13 9780374528942
  • Publish Date 14 February 2004 (first published 7 February 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 1 September 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 184
  • Language English