The Stone Virgins AUTH-270986 Hoda Barakat is a contemporary

Hoda Barakat is a contemporary Lebanese-born novelist writing in the Arabic language

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In Mostly Water

The Stone Virgins AUTH-270986 Hoda Barakat is a contemporaryWinner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction An uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard fought for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled the begining of brutal civil unrest that would last nearly a