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Yvonne Vera Bulawayo, Rhodesia 19 Sept. 1964 - Ontario 7 April 2005 full text search: the ledge - flash version* *
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ON YVONNE VERA'S BOOKSHELF Eva Luna Isabel Allende, 1987 The Shadow of the Sun A.S. Byatt, Byatt's debut novel tells the story of troubled, sensitive seventeen-year-old Anna Severell, who struggles to discover and develop her own personality in the shadow of her father, a renowned novelist. The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison, 1970 Surfacing Margaret Atwood, 1972 Miguel Street V.S. Naipaul, 1959 'My original influences were more Caribbean authors. Because I'd taken a course at university in Canada on Caribbean authors, George Lamming, V.S. Naipul, and Sam Selvon. Especially Miguel Street by V.S. Naipul. I could never write a book with as much charm...' - Yvonne Vera The Cardinals Bessie Head, 1962 / 1993 'After my "Caribbean phase", I moved to reading people like Bessie Head... Very strong moral indignation, you know, that kind of a writer.' - Yvonne Vera The Hunger House Dambudzo Marechera, 1978 Vera shared Marechera's daring approach to subject, bold uses of language, symbolic style, and willingness to use the surreal. Women in Love D.H. Lawrence, 1921 (first published in 1920, in New York, 'for subscribers only') Vera was the first black person to get a library card at the whites-only Bulawayo Public Library. She used to say she may have been the only 12-year-old in Bulawayo to have read every one of the works of D. H. Lawrence (along with most of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.)	BOOKS BY YVONNE VERA: Butterfly Burning 1998 Set in the mid-1940s, in the black township of Makokoba in Bulawayo (Rhodesia), Butterfly Burning tells the story of the love between the 50-year old Fumbatha and the much younger Phephelaphi Dube.	WHAT TO READ AFTER BUTTERFLY BURNING? LIFE IN THE TOWNSHIP Dancing with Life Christopher Mlalazi, 2008 Tales from the township. The Lying Days Nadine Gordimer, 1953 Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton, 1958 Story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. MAY-DECEMBER The Reader Bernhard Schlink, 1995 Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel García Márquez, 2004 On his 90th birthday, a man decides that his gift to himself will be a night with an adolescent virgin. To surprise, he falls in love with her. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 RHODESIA The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing, 1950 The Leper Compound Paula Nangle, 2008 Coming-of-age story of a white girl growing up in Rhodesia during the country’s bloody fight for independence. Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1989 TRAGIC HEROINES The House of Mirth Edith Wharton, 1905 The Mill on the Floss George Eliot, 1860 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates, 1961
	The Stone Virgins 2002
	Without a Name 1994
	Under the Tongue 1996 Chronicles adolescent Zhizha's search for identity through a complicated relationship with her family.
	Nehanda 1993 The story of a people's first encounter with colonialism.
	Why Don't You Carve Other Animals 1992 Her first book. Stories.
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