A Question of Power"When Elizabeth learns the devastating truth about her mother, locked away for defying Apartheid, she flees South Africa and begins a new life in Botswana, at Motabeng, the village of the rain-wind. But Elizabeth is tormented by two men, Dan and Sello, who represent for her a private vision of hell into which she sinks deeper and deeper. This novel interweaves one woman's terrifying experience of insanity with the madness and cruelty of life in a divided society. A Question of Power is the unforgettable study of an individual - and a race - whose identity has been annihilated, and their resulting struggle to endure"--Publisher's description. |
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African Afrikaner asked beautiful BESSIE HEAD Birgette Bodhi trees Body Beautiful Botswana brown suit Buddha bush Caligula Camilla Cape Gooseberry chair D. H. LAWRENCE dark death deep door dress dusty brown road Eugene everything evil eyes face Father feel flung Ghanzi girl going hands hate head heart hell homosexual human Jones Kenosi kind knew Ku Klux Klan laughed legs living looked at Elizabeth mankind Medusa mental mind monk morning Motabeng Secondary School Motabeng village mother never night nightmare nodded person prophecies quietly racialist record seedlings seemed Sello Setswana SHIMMER CHINODYA Shorty shouted silent sleep small boy smiling soft softly someone soul South Africa stared stood strange suddenly suffering talked teacher terrible There's things thought took torture totally trees voice walked whole wild woman women work-group