The Cardinals: With Meditations and Short Stories (African Writers Series) (French Edition)

The Cardinals--thought to be the first long piece of fiction Head produced and the only one she ever set in South Africa--is an exciting literary event. Mouse lacks love and family, but lives for books. A newspaper job opens her eyes to real life. Johnny, a time-worn journalist, offers love and shelter, but at the price of losing her naive view of society. Can she accept that apartheid rules, and form her own loveless history? The cardinals Earth and everything Africa My home A personal view of the survival of the unfittest Where is the hour of the beautiful dancing of birds in the sun-wind? Poor man Earth love. A novella and seven stories by a black South African writer. The title novella is on a woman who at birth is sold by her mother to a childless couple and who runs away when the stepfather begins molesting her. Eventually she obtains a job as a reporter on a black newspaper, where she finds love. Through her eyes is seen the struggle against apartheid Bessie Head's first known novel manuscript, published posthumously.