Книга: Head Bessie «When Rain Clouds Gather Reader»

When Rain Clouds Gather Reader

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Human Interest Okonkwo is respected for his strength, bravery, honesty and wealth. But his people are doomed to be destroyed both by the superstition-bound customs of tribal life, and the arrival of the white man. This simply and movingly told story by Nigeria's foremost novelist has become a classic in African literature. Recommended for older readers.

Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2006)

ISBN: 978-0-230-02440-3

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Head, Bessie

orig. Bessie Amelia Emery

born July 6, 1937, Pietermaritzburg, S.Af.
died April 17, 1986, Serowe, Bots.

South African-born Botswanan writer.

Born of an illegal union between a white mother and a black father, she suffered rejection and alienation from an early age. She described the contradictions and shortcomings of pre-and postcolonial African society in morally didactic novels and stories, including When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), Maru (1971), A Question of Power (1973), The Collector of Treasures (1977), Serowe, Village of the Rainwind (1981), A Bewitched Crossroad (1984), and The Cardinals (1993).

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