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- catalog abstract "Without a name. "Charts the course of a young woman, Mazvita, as she journeys from rural Mubaira to the chaos of late 1970s Harare, a hotbed of violent political action and revolutionary social change. After collapsing from mental and physical exhaustion, Mazvita moves in with a young man, who when it becomes evident that she is pregnant, turns Mazvita out of his home. Destitute, she is led by fear and desperation to commit an unthinkable act."--Back cover. Under the tongue. "When Zhizha is raped by her father, a self-styled war hero, she loses all desire and ability to speak. Her relationships with her mother, jailed for killing her husband after discovering his brutal acts, and her grandmother evoke profound meditations on the nature and necessity of language and expression, and on the affinity between silence and sorrow."--Back cover.".
- catalog alternative "Under the tongue.".
- catalog alternative "Without a name ; and, Under the tongue".
- catalog contributor b12430976.
- catalog contributor b12430977.
- catalog coverage "Zimbabwe Fiction.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "Under the tongue. "When Zhizha is raped by her father, a self-styled war hero, she loses all desire and ability to speak. Her relationships with her mother, jailed for killing her husband after discovering his brutal acts, and her grandmother evoke profound meditations on the nature and necessity of language and expression, and on the affinity between silence and sorrow."--Back cover.".
- catalog description "Without a name. "Charts the course of a young woman, Mazvita, as she journeys from rural Mubaira to the chaos of late 1970s Harare, a hotbed of violent political action and revolutionary social change. After collapsing from mental and physical exhaustion, Mazvita moves in with a young man, who when it becomes evident that she is pregnant, turns Mazvita out of his home. Destitute, she is led by fear and desperation to commit an unthinkable act."--Back cover.".
- catalog extent "234 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0374528160 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "Zimbabwe Fiction.".
- catalog subject "823/.914 21".
- catalog subject "Incest victims Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR9390.9.V47 W5 2002".
- catalog subject "Pregnant women Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young women Fiction.".
- catalog title "Without a name ; and, Under the tongue / Yvonne Vera.".
- catalog title "Without a name ; and, Under the tongue".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".