Overview
Region
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe
Era
Post-colonial
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Set during Zimbabwe's liberation war, following Mazvita who flees her burned village to the city, is raped, and makes a terrible choice about the child she carries. A spare, devastating novel about war's violence against women.
Literary Significance
Vera's most harrowing novel; one of the most powerful African works about the effects of war on women