Maru
By: Bessie Head ; introduction by Stephen Gray
Contributors: Gray, Stephen, 1941- writer of introduction
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Long Grove, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781478607618
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Botswanan fiction (English); Minorities; Fiction; Social conditions; Teachers; Ethnic relations; Roman botswanais (anglais); Minorités; Romans, nouvelles; Conditions sociales; Enseignants
Description: 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. Her presence polarizes a community that does not see her people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast. 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. 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.