In this Book
- Go Tell the Sun
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Modjaji Books
summary
WAME MOLEFHE's stories have a gentle, unassuming yet intimate and captivating feel to them. Set in Botswana, the stories trace the lives of characters whose paths cross and re-cross each others', some times in and through love, at other times through tragedy. And through them the author brings to bear a woman's perspective on the societal mores in which sexual abuse, homophobia and AIDS, among others, flourish and spread. The social content and views are never proclaimed as a loud agenda; instead, it forms a 'natural' backdrop to the lives of the characters, something that may raise a wry comment or thought in one character, while eliciting a mere shrug from another. Molefhe's voice is, to some extent, a world-weary voice, weary of all she has seen of society's failures, but never without the gentleness often absent and much needed in broken societies, and never without the hope and redemption that can be found in love and the imagination.
Table of Contents
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- Who Do You Tell?
- pp. 11-23
- Sethunya Likes Girls Better
- pp. 24-36
- Botswana Rain
- pp. 37-49
- Coloured Locks
- pp. 58-70
- Blood of Mine
- pp. 71-85
- Empty-Handed
- pp. 89-92
- Marang, Mother of Keineetse
- pp. 93-104
Additional Information
ISBN
9781920397944
Related ISBN(s)
9781920397036
MARC Record
OCLC
777401451
Pages
130
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No