When Rain Clouds Gather
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Author | : Bessie Head |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2013-09-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1478611677 |
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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 |
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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 | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780435909819 |
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Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.
Author | : Bessie Head |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1478635142 |
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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 | : B. J. Mason |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1975-11-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521206502 |
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Dr Mason has revised and updated his popular account of cloud-related meteorological phenomena.
Author | : Greg Weisman |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250029805 |
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Rain of the Ghosts is the first in Greg Weisman's series about an adventurous young girl, Rain Cacique, who discovers she has a mystery to solve, a mission to complete and, oh, yes, the ability to see ghosts. Welcome to the Prospero Keys (or as the locals call them: the Ghost Keys), a beautiful chain of tropical islands on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle. Rain Cacique is water-skiing with her two best friends Charlie and Miranda when Rain sees her father waiting for her at the dock. Sebastian Bohique, her maternal grandfather, has passed away. He was the only person who ever made Rain feel special. The only one who believed she could do something important with her life. The only thing she has left to remember him by is the armband he used to wear: two gold snakes intertwined, clasping each other's tails in their mouths. Only the armband . . . and the gift it brings: Rain can see dead people. Starting with the Dark Man: a ghost determined to reveal the Ghost Keys' hidden world of mystery and mysticism, intrigue and adventure.
Author | : Emma M. McCollum |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2014-07-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1490741259 |
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Sad Cloud, Happy Cloud reminds us that it is okay to cry. For example, when Sad cries, his tears keep people from playing outside. However, when Sad cries, magical things happen! This book teaches the valuable lesson that it is okay to cry!
Author | : Lawrence F. Lowery |
Publisher | : National Science Teachers Assn |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781938946127 |
Download Clouds, Rain, Clouds Again Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"In Clouds, rain, clouds again, the reader receives a simplified picture of the water cycle: cloud formation, rain, evaporation, and condensation that forms clouds. Clouds, rain, clouds again is part of the I Wonder Why book series, written to ignite thecuriosity of children in grades K-6 while encouraging them to become avid readers"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Bessie Head |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780435272487 |
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Botswana cattle farmers. Fiction.
Author | : Inua Ellams |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0008324786 |
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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.