When Rain Clouds Gather

Posted on 24 December 2018 by Bessie Head

A poverty stricken village in the heart of rural Botswana is a haven to the exiles gathered there When a political refugee from South Africa joins forces with an English agricultural expert, the time honoured subsistence farming method and old ways of life are challenged. Free Download When Rain Clouds Gather [ By ] Bessie Head [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr If I were to give adefinite rating to the book it would be a 3.5 which means it is a good book An exile fleeing Apartheid South Africa seeks refuge in a small rural town in Botswana and finds himself in the middle of a tussle for power and plans for development.Set in the 1960s, during Botswana s independence, Bessie Head who was a refugee in Botswana herself writes splendidly of rural Botswana I liked the way Bessie Head writes romance, her ability to incorporate the landscape, climate If I were to give adefinite rating to the book it would be a 3.5 which means it is a good book An exile fleein...It was Alice Walker who advised me to read Bessie Head, and it s true, she knows how to induce tenderness sympathy for her characters, and fill a scenario that other authors would make gloomy and grim with sweet passion and sunlight, with humanity and warmth.There is quite a strong author voice in this novel, a strong hold maintained on the material by the author Yet the feeling I have is that the characters are not her puppets, but real souls who travel their own paths through the beauti It was ...A wonderful story of hardship, tragedy, and hope A black South African fugitive from justice, a young British expert in farming, two wise old villagers, an evil and cowardly chief, his jovial and womanizing bro...This book is part of my required reading for the Unisa BA course that I m busy with at time of writing, so please forgive me if I go a little deeper with this review than my regular offerings.Firstly, I need to look at the context in which this book was written Bessie Head, the child of a white mother and a black father, was born during a time in South Africa when interracial marriages were illegal, so she grew up within a racially segregated country She was also involved in the media as a jou This book is part of my required reading for the Unisa BA course that I m busy with at time of writing, so please forgive me if I go a little deeper with this review than my regular offerings.Firstly, I need to look at the context in which this book was written Bessie Hea...I previously read Maru, by the same author, and found it well written but disturbing, given that the central romance consists of the male protagonist stalking, manipulating and putting down the female protagonist So I expected to really enjoy another book by Head, with a different plot Unfortunately, ...Bessie Head s When Rain Clouds Gather was a delight to read About a South African exiled in Botswana and there has to deal with chiefs, politics, a man who is eager to change the circumstances in a village I really liked the them...Bessie Head manages to saturate When Rain Clouds Gather with a thoroughly winning concoction of generous bitterness Though numerous antagonists, injustices and misfortunes beset the sympathetic characters of her book, they don t sour the atmosphere or poison the narrative this is refreshingly different from some of the continent s unrepentantly sourpuss authors like Achebe and Coetzee The balance of discontent and gratitude that carries the novel also exists within some of thenuanced c Bessie Head manages to saturate When Rain Clouds Gather with a thoroughly winning concoction of generous bitterness Though numerous antagonists, injustices and misfortunes beset the sympathetic characters of her book, they don t sour the atmosphere or poison the narrative this is refreshingly different from some of the continent s unrepentantly sourpuss authors like Achebe and Coetzee The balance of discontent and gratitude that carries the novel also exists within some of thenuanced characters, such as Makhaya and Paulina Though a few stock characters of the Africa...Bessie Head s books are short but is filled to the brim with characters who become elements of study In When Rain clouds gather, she steps back from story telling and allows her characters to teach the readers who are observing in on the changes that s starting to take place in the quiet rural farming village The story is a study in disappointment and hope Head plays in twos be it in Maru or in When rain clouds gather, she uses dualism to further her ideas and spin a twist on contradiction Bessie Head s books are short but is filled to the brim with characters who become elements of study In When Rain clouds gather, she steps back from story telling and allows her characters to...I didn t think it was possible for rain clouds to gather on a daily basis and never a drop of rain A story of hope, new beginnings, and pain The tease of clouds above without a drop to give is a reflection of the people that try to rule this Botswana village, but sometimes a d...Reading the book was literary bliss I had to pause regularly and ponder on the strong, insightful and thought provoking viewpoints that Head made through her characters The author once again draws from her personal experiences She effectively psychoanalyzes her characters as she relates their eventful journeys She relates of a foreigner in a strange land Of alienation Loneliness Being different Of outspoken proactive , educated women Of a woman Maria with a double personality It was Reading the book was literary bliss I had to pause regularly and ponder on the strong, insightful and thought provoking viewpoints that Head made through her characters The author once again draws from her personal experiences She effectively psychoanalyzes her characters as...

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24 December 2018

Bessie Head