num_pages: 128
description: Hlangeni's people must be moved to a Bantustan from the land near an arid town in the South African Karoo for the benefit of mining interests. No other South African writer has given such a rounded picture of all the people in a small community inexorably moving towards tragedy.
language: English
title: Time of the Butcherbird
titlecomplete: Time of the Butcherbird
characters: Shilling Murile
genres: Fiction, South Africa, African Literature, Africa, Novels
ratings_count: 83
places: South Africa
publisher: Heinemann