For the mercy of water
By: Karen Jayes
Publisher: Penguin Books (South Africa)
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780143530213
Subjects: Water-supply; Fiction; Droughts
Description: "In a country gripped by drought, water has become the priceless commodity over which a deadly war is being waged. ... When an unexpected rain leads a group of water security guards to a town long since thought abandoned, they find an old woman ... and a group of girls in a classroom. A journalist, two aid workers and a doctor arrive soon afterwards, and what they discover there defies ordinary explanation."--Back cover.