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| Author | : Bessie Head |
| Publisher | : Waveland Press |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2013-09-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1478611677 |
Rural Botswana is the backdrop for When Rain Clouds Gather, the first novel published by one of Africa’s leading woman writers in English, Bessie Head (1937–1986). Inspired by her own traumatic life experiences as an outcast in Apartheid South African society and as a refugee living at the Bamangwato Development Association Farm in Botswana, Head’s tough and telling classic work is set in the poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, a haven to exiles. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionize the villagers’ traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief, and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community. Head’s layered, compelling story confronts the complexities of such topics as social and political change, conflict between science and traditional ways, tribalism, the role of traditional African chiefs, religion, race relations, and male–female relations.
| Author | : Bessie Head |
| Publisher | : Waveland Press |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2013-09-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1478611618 |
Read worldwide for her wisdom, authenticity, and skillful prose, South African–born Bessie Head (1937–1986) offers a moving and magical tale of an orphaned girl, Margaret Cadmore, who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her presence polarizes a community that does not see her people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast. In the love story and intrigue that follows, Head brilliantly combines a portrait of loneliness with a rich affirmation of the mystery and spirituality of life. The core of this otherworldly, rhapsodic work is a plot about racial injustice and prejudice with a lesson in how traditional intolerance may render whole sections of a society untouchable.
| Author | : Bessie Head |
| Publisher | : Waveland Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2017-03-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1478635142 |
In this fast-paced, semi-autobiographical novel, Head exposes the complicated life of Elizabeth, whose reality is intermingled with nightmarish dreams and hallucinations. Like the author, Elizabeth was conceived out-of-wedlock; her mother was white and her father black—a union outlawed in apartheid South Africa. Elizabeth eventually leaves with her young son to live in Botswana, a country less oppressed by colonial domination, where she finds stability for herself and her son by working on an experimental farm. As readers grow to know Elizabeth, they experience the inner chaos that threatens her stability, and her constant struggle to emerge from the torment of her dreams. There she is plagued by two men, Sello and Dan, who represent complex notions of politics, sex, religion, individuality, and the blurred line between good and evil. Elizabeth’s troubling but amazing roller-coaster ride ends in an unfettered discovery.
| Author | : Inua Ellams |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 62 |
| Release | : 2019-04-04 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0008324786 |
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.
| Author | : Bessie Head |
| Publisher | : Heinemann International Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Authors, South African |
| ISBN | : 9780435906030 |
A collection of autobiographical writings, sketches, and essays that covers the entire span of Bessie Head's creative life.
| Author | : Lisa Bevere |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2018-04-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1493407244 |
By ancient definition, the adamant was known as both a diamond and a mythical stone of indestructible wonder. In more modern terminology, it describes a posture of unshakeable resolve and determination. If there was ever a time for us to be adamant about love and truth it is now. God is Love. God is Truth. Both love and truth are timeless, transcending our current trends and opinions. Sometimes the most loving thing we will ever do is to speak the truth, but speaking truth begins with living it. Using the mediums of Scripture and story, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Bevere takes readers on a journey into the Mountain of God, to the one place they can learn not only to abide in God's unshakeable truth and love, but become adamant--people who are unmovable, determined, and steadfast. With conviction and passion, Lisa unpacks the concept of the adamant for readers, linking together the grand story of Scripture and God's purpose in their lives. Readers will see that God's plan is revealed as we dwell in him, it is there that we are forged and shaped. As we abide in Christ our Cornerstone we are shaped into the image of the adamant.
| Author | : Nadine Gordimer |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2003-11-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 074756275X |
This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.
| Author | : Bessie Head |
| Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Short stories, South African (English) |
| ISBN | : 9780435045715 |
The Lovers collects Head's short fiction of the 1960s and 70s, written mainly in Serowe, Botswana, and depicting the lives and loves of African village people pre- and post-independence. An earlier selection called Tales of Tenderness and Power was published in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1990, but this expanded and updated volume adds many previously unavailable stories collected here for the first time. Anthology favourites like her breakthrough 'The Woman from America' and 'The Prisoner who Wore Glasses' are included, leading up to the first complete text of her much translated title story. Stephen Gray is a noted South African scholar and novelist.
| Author | : Bessie Head |
| Publisher | : Heinemann |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780435909819 |
Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.
| Author | : Bessie Head |
| Publisher | : Heinemann International Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
South African political refugee, Makhaya, and Englishman Gilbert Balfour join forces to revolutionize the villagers' traditional farming methods.
