The Stone Virgins – Yvonne Vera, Winner of the Adult Fiction category
Thenjiwe and Nonceba, two sisters, have grown up in Kezi, through the troubled years of
the liberation war, culminating in 1980 with a new spirit of freedom and excitement. This
spirit, like everything else, reaches the stoep of Thandabantu Store, where women hold
liberation in their arms and anchor it to the future through their children's names, and
where female freedom fighters, returned from the bush, display their confidence with
startling, careless ease. Yvonne Vera evokes the passion that people feel for their
country as they seek to balance personal histories against national and conflicting ones. |
