Southern Africa
Zimbabwe
Post-colonial
English
Fiction
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.
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Vera's most harrowing novel; one of the most powerful African works about the effects of war on women
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editorial-summarynot primary textSet 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. Vera's most harrowing novel; one of the most powerful African works about the effects of war on women
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