The Stone Virgins

In 1980, after decades of guerrilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-won independence"from Britain, Less than two years later, Robert Mugabe's rise to power in the new Zimbabwe brought an explosion of violence acrosss'the land that still reverberates in today's headlines. Weaving. historical fact within a story of grand passions and striking endurance, Yvonne Vera has fashioned an uncompromising portrait of life before and after the liberation. The result is a powerful arid provocative tribute to the resilience of the Zimbabwe an people that will not soon be forgotten.