{"product_id":"a-question-of-power","title":"A Question of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e A Question of Power (Kindle, 223 pages) – Waveland Press, Inc., 2017. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \"It wasn't any kind of physical stamina that kept her going, but a vague, instinctive pattern of normal human decencies combined with the work she did, the people she met each day and the unfolding of a project with exciting inventive possibilities. But a person eventually becomes a replica of the inner demons he battles with. Any kind of demon is more powerful than normal human decencies, because such things do not exist for him.\" Bessie Head\u003cp\u003e In this fast-paced, semi-autobiographical novel, Head exposes the complicated life of Elizabeth, whose reality is intermingled with nightmarish dreams and hallucinations. Like the author, Elizabeth was conceived out-of-wedlock; her mother was white and her father black a union outlawed in apartheid South Africa. Elizabeth eventually leaves with her young son to live in Botswana, a country less oppressed by colonial domination, where she finds stability for herself and her son by working on an experimental farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As readers grow to know Elizabeth, they experience the inner chaos that threatens her stability, and her constant struggle to emerge from the torment of her dreams. There she is plagued by two men, Sello and Dan, who represent complex notions of politics, sex, religion, individuality, and the blurred line between good and evil. Elizabeth's troubling but amazing roller-coaster ride ends in an unfettered discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther titles by Bessie Head available from Waveland Press: The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601); Maru (ISBN 9781478607618); and When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther titles by African writers from Waveland Press:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Amadi, The Concubine (ISBN 9781478634607)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Andreas, The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (ISBN 9781478634584)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ba, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Campbell, My Children Have Faces (ISBN 9781478635017)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Emecheta, Kehinde (ISBN 9781577664192)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kubuitsile, The Scattering (ISBN 9781478634591)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e La Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Marechera, The House of Hunger (ISBN 9781478604730)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Nwapa, Efuru (ISBN 9781478611011)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e p'Bitek, Song of Lawino \u0026amp; Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Plaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tadjo, The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda (ISBN 9781478627814)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Warner-Vieyra, Jultane (ISBN 9781478611783)\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"Bessie Head","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069999501546,"sku":"9781478634690","price":15.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/81wOCJgnfLL._SY522.jpg?v=1781236733","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/a-question-of-power","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}