- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (31 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141187212
- ISBN-13: 978-0141187211
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,348,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
?Head brilliantly develops ascending degrees of personal isolation, and is very moving when she describes abating pain.?-The Sunday Times
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
"Your mother was insane. If you're not careful you'll get insane just like your mother. Your mother was a white woman. They had to lock her up, as she was having a child by the stable boy who was a native". It is never clear to Elizabeth whether this cruel revelation of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown. In the darkness of a country where the people turn and look at her with curiosity as an outsider we are taken in and out of sanity and plunged into the deepest depths of the mind.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the most powerful, complicated novel of all Head's novels. Through Elizabeth, the protagonist, Head has moved the politics of Apartheid South Africa to Botswana, Elizabeth's new adopted country, which begins to feel as oppressive to her as South Africa. Elizabeth falls into nightmarish visions, filled with evil forces and misogynist men. The novel is divided into two parts; within each part, there is also the external world of Motabeng village where Elizabeth interacts with real characters and the internal world of her psyche where she struggles with her own psychological projections: Dan, Sello and Medusa. A very good read from a woman writer whose own personal suffering as a colored in South Africa and whose humanistic vision for human coexistence and tolerance underlies most of the novel.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In A Question of Power, Bessie Head makes a deep exploration into the life of a woman in her world which is governed by every day efforts of the characters to exercise control or have an edge over those they are dealing with. Brilliantly written, this fast moving and deep novel is a recommended book for someone interested in women in this politically liberal part of Africa.
Also recommended: THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES, WEEP NOT CHILD
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In A Question of Power, Bessie Head makes a deep exploration into the life of a woman in her world which is governed by every day efforts of the characters to exercise control or have an edge over those they are dealing with. Brilliantly written, this fast moving and deep novel is a recommended book for someone interested in women in this politically liberal part of Africa.
Also recommended: THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES, WEEP NOT CHILD, TRIPLE AGENT DOUBLE CROSS, DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
