Maru by bessie head audiobook5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Other titles by Bessie Head available from Waveland Press: The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601) A Question of Power (ISBN 9781478634690) and When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595). 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. 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. ![]() ![]() Her presence polarizes a community that does not see her people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast. 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. ![]()
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