Maru — Bessie Head

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.

Other titles by Bessie Head available from Waveland Press: The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601);A Question of Power (ISBN 9781478634690); and When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595).

Other titles by African writers from Waveland Press:

Amadi, The Concubine (ISBN 9781478634607)

Andreas, The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (ISBN 9781478634584)

Ba, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060)

Campbell, My Children Have Faces (ISBN 13 9781478635017)

Kubuitsile, The Scattering (ISBN 9781478634591)

La Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251)

Marechera, The House of Hunger (ISBN 9781478604730)

Mofolo, Chaka (ISBN 9781478607151)

Nwapa, Efuru (ISBN 9781478611011)

p'Bitek, Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723)

Plaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575)

Rifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)