topics: |  fiction | botswana | africa

Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to
discover that in this remote Botswana village her own people are treated as
outcasts. In the love story and intrigue that follows, Bessie Head
brilliantly combines a portrait of loneliness with a rich affirmation of the
mystery and spirituality of life.