Butterfly Burning

Butterfly Burning is a novel by Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera that was first published on January 1, 1998. Set in the late 1940s, it is about the voice of the people under colonialism in Zimbabwe. It is a romantic story that follows the life of construction worker Fumbatha, who falls in love with Phephelaphi, a much younger woman.

Quotes

• The work is not their own: it is summoned. The time is not theirs: it is seized. The ordeal is their own
  • The Narrator (chapter 1)
• If not freedom then rhythm"
  • The Narrator (chapter 1)
• Fumbatha could never be the beginning or end of all her yearning
  • (Chapter 11)

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