Bessie Head

Broschiertes Buch

When Rain Clouds Gather And Maru

Beschreibung

In two powerful novels of belonging, one of Africa's most important writers explores village life and the traditions of Botswana.

Autor

Bessie Emery Head (1937-1986) was born in South Africa, and considered Botswana's most influential writer. She was the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa. Her key works include When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), A Question of Power (1973) and Tales of Tenderness and Power (1991). In the 1950s and 1960s, she was also a teacher and then a journalist for the South African magazine Drum. In 1964, she moved to Botswana (then still the Bechuanaland Protectorate) as a refugee, having been peripherally involved with Pan-African politics.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9781844086221
• ISBN-10: 1844086224
• Artikelnr.: 29587556

Rezensionen

When Rain Clouds Gather and Maru are fairy tales about the transformations that love can wreak. And they transform love into a force to be thankful for Helen Oyeyemi