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Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her own people are treated as outcasts. In the love story and intrigue that follows, Bessie Head brilliantly combines a portrait of loneliness with a rich affirmation of the mystery and spirituality of life.
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9781478607618 | Waveland Pr Inc, September 17, 2013, cover price $12.95
9780435913588 | Heinemann, August 21, 2008, cover price $13.69
9780435909635 | Heinemann, September 1, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her own people are treated as outcasts.
9780435907181 | Reissue edition (Heinemann, October 1, 1988), cover price $11.95 | also contains How to Succeed at University: An Essential Guide to Academic Skills, Personal Development & Employability | About this edition: Margaret, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this Botswana village her people are treated as outcasts.
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9781478607601 | Reissue edition (Waveland Pr Inc, September 1, 2013), cover price $12.95
Product Description: In this semi-autobiographical novel, Head tracks the protagonist Elizabeth's struggle to emerge from the oppressive social situation in which she finds herself, and from the nightmares and hallucinations that torment her. Elizabeth, like the author, was conceived in an out-of-wedlock union between a black man and a white woman of social standing - a union outlawed by her country of birth, South Africa...read more
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9780143528487 | Penguin Global, May 23, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this semi-autobiographical novel, Head tracks the protagonist Elizabeth's struggle to emerge from the oppressive social situation in which she finds herself, and from the nightmares and hallucinations that torment her.
9780435907204 | Longman Pub Group, June 22, 1987, cover price $20.80
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9781558615472 | Feminist Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $12.95
Product Description: Intense personal experiences of South Africaâs brutal social system, a sense of stifled creativity and a distaste for politics made Bessie Head leave for Botswana on an exit permit at the age of 27. There, in her chosen rural âhavenâ of Serowe, and despite a severe mental breakdown, she wrote the novels and stories that earned her international recognition as one of Africaâs most remarkabble and individual writers...read more
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9780435906030, titled "A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings" | Pearson P T R, January 30, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Intense personal experiences of South Africaâs brutal social system, a sense of stifled creativity and a distaste for politics made Bessie Head leave for Botswana on an exit permit at the age of 27.
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9780395775462, titled "When Rain Clouds Gather and Related Readings: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections" | McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, October 9, 1996, cover price $19.25 | About this edition: Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: McDougal Littel (October 9, 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0395775469 ISBN-13: 978-0395775462
Product Description: In the heart of rural Botswana, the poverty stricken village of Golema Mmidi is a haven to exiles from far and wide. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionise the villagers traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community...read more
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9780435913571 | 1 revised edition (Longman Pub Group, August 30, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In the heart of rural Botswana, the poverty stricken village of Golema Mmidi is a haven to exiles from far and wide.
9780435909611 | Heinemann, June 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Two exiles--one white, one black--in a poor village in Botswana struggle with tradition, climate, and the local chief as they try to modernize the villagers' farming methods.
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9781417738182 | Turtleback Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: The poverty-striken village of Golema Mmidi, in the heart of rural Botswana, is a haven to the exiles gathered there.
Product Description: Intense personal experience of South Africa's brutal social system, a sense of stifled creativity, and a distaste for politics made Bessie Head leave for Botswana on an exit permit at the age of 27. There, in her chosen rural haven of Serowe, and despite a severe mental breakdown, she wrote novels and stories that earned her international recognition as one of Africa's most remarkable and individual writers...read more
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9780435909673 | Heinemann, December 18, 1995, cover price $13.69 | About this edition: Intense personal experience of South Africa's brutal social system, a sense of stifled creativity, and a distaste for politics made Bessie Head leave for Botswana on an exit permit at the age of 27.
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9780435905798 | Reprint edition (Heinemann, February 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | also contains Getting into Nursing | About this edition: This is an anthology of stories, personal observations and historic legends.
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9780435907266 | Heinemann, October 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | also contains Nursing Ethics | About this edition: The poverty-striken village of Golema Mmidi, in the heart of rural Botswana, is a haven to the exiles gathered there.
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9780913729540 | Reissue edition (Paragon House, September 1, 1986), cover price $21.95
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9780435902209 | Heinemann, June 1, 1981, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: An examination of Serowe's recent past - seen through the words and memories of the village inhabitants.
Product Description: Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780435909819, titled "A Collector of Treasures" | Longman Pub Group, September 28, 1992, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.
9780435901820 | Heinemann, December 1, 1977, cover price $9.95 | also contains Experiencing the Unconventional: Science in Art
Product Description: 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...read more
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9780394491554 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1972, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: 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.
Hardcover:
9780671201760 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1969, cover price $5.95
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