num_pages: 448
description: Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush.Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of his future.
language: English
title: Rumours Of Rain
titlecomplete: Rumours Of Rain
genres: Fiction, African Literature, South Africa, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Africa
ratings_count: 441
places: South Africa
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: VINTAGE