num_pages: 206
description: "Your mother was insane. If you're not careful you'll get insane just like your mother. Your mother was a white woman. They had to lock her up, as she was having a child by the stable boy who was a native." It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission school principal's cruel revelation of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown. She has left South Africa with her son and is living in the village of Motabeng, the place of sand, in Botswana where there are no street lights at night. In the darkness of this country where people turn and look at her with vague curiosity as an outsider she establishes an entirely abnormal relationship with two men. A mind-bending book which takes the reader in and out of sanity.
language: English
title: A Question of Power
titlecomplete: A Question of Power
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, South Africa, Botswana, Fiction, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 1009
places: Botswana
publisher: Longman