Cardinals

Name: Cardinals
Price: 13.58 USD
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ISBN: 9780435909673

ISBN-10: 0435909673

ISBN-13: 9780435909673

Edition: 1995

Authors: Bessie Head, Bessie Head

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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. The publication at last of The Cardinals--thought to be the first long piece of fiction Head produced and the only one she ever set in South Africa--is an exciting literary event. After a childhood of poverty and abuse in the slums of Cape Town, the protagonist unexpectedly lands…

Book details

List price: $13.69
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 12/18/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Introduction



The Cardinals


Earth and Everything


Africa


My Home


A Personal View of the Survival of the Unfittest


Where Is the Hour of the Beautiful Dancing of Birds in the Sun-Wind?


Poor Man


Earth Love