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Bessie Head

A Question of Power

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In the village of Motabeng, Botswana — the place of sand — Elizabeth and her son have made their new home, far away from their old life in South Africa. But the past cannot be conveniently left behind at the border. Even though she may be free to reinvent herself in this new country, Elizabeth's mixed racial heritage and urban ways mark her as an outsider. A mind-bending novel that takes the reader in and out of sanity, this semi-autobiographical work tracks Elizabeth's struggle to emerge from the oppressive social situation in which she finds herself and from the nightmares and hallucinations that torment her.
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266 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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    here seemed to be a mutual agreement in the beginning that an examination of inner hells was meant to end all hells for ever.
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    He loved each particle of the earth around him, the everyday event of sunrise, the people and the animals of the village of Motabeng; perhaps his love included the whole universe. He said to himself that evening: ‘I might have died before I found this freedom of heart.’ That was another perfect statement, to him – love was freedom of heart.
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    man might laugh at intense suffering only if the evil that tortured him became irrelevant

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