![]() 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.Īs 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. Like the author, Elizabeth was conceived out-of-wedlock her mother was white and her father black-a union outlawed in apartheid South Africa. ![]() In this fast-paced, semi-autobiographical novel, Head exposes the complicated life of Elizabeth, whose reality is intermingled with nightmarish dreams and hallucinations. Any kind of demon is more powerful than normal human decencies, because such things do not exist for him.” - Bessie Head But a person eventually becomes a replica of the inner demons he battles with. “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. ![]()
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