{"product_id":"without-a-name-and-under-the-tongue","title":"Without a Name and Under the Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003eYvonne Veras novels chronicle the lives of Zimbabwean women with extraordinary power and beauty. Without a Name and Under the Tongue, her two earliest novels, are set in the seventies during the guerrilla war against the white government.In Without a Name (1994), Mazvita, a young woman from the country, travels to Harare to escape the war and begin a new life. But her dreams of independence are shortlived. She begins a relationship of convenience and becomes pregnant.In Under the Tongue (1996), the adolescent Zhizha has lost the will to speak. In lyrical fragments, Vera relates the story of Zhizhas parents, and the horrifying events that led to her mothers imprisonment and her fathers death. With this novel Vera became the first Zimbabwean writer ever to deal frankly with incest. With these surprising, at times shocking novels Vera shows herself to be a writer of great potential.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45899809423558,"sku":"DADAX0374528160","price":23.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/71_rHJQH0ML.jpg?v=1780302827","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/without-a-name-and-under-the-tongue","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}