Vera, Yvonne. 2002. Without a Name and Under the Tongue.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 234 pp.

Yvonne Vera has been a leading light in Zimbabwean letters for more than a decade, beginning with the 1992 publication of her collection of short stories, Why Don't You Carve Other Animals? Now Farrar, Straus and Giroux have done American scholars and teachers of African literature a great service by reprinting, together in one volume, two of her early novellas, from 1994 and 1996. Reading them back to back reveals the logic of pairing the two works in this way: most obviously, both novellas are set in the late 1970s, during the ...

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