{"product_id":"butterfly-burning-yvonne-vera-9780374291860","title":"Butterfly Burning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVera exploits language to peel away the skin of public and private lives. In \u003ci\u003eButterfly Burning \u003c\/i\u003eshe captures the ebullience and the bitterness of township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eButterfly Burning\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yvonne Vera, Vera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374291861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374291860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.51w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2000 pg. 917\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2000 pg. 917\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2000 pg. 2117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/28\/2000 pg. 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2000 pg. 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/25\/2000","brand":"Yvonne Vera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987300057343,"sku":"9780374291860","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a513e314-dc1f-4e57-9232-de34a4cdd090.jpg?v=1683288158","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/butterfly-burning-yvonne-vera-9780374291860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}