Friday, August 28, 2015

Maru

A thoughtful and poetic little novel about racial discrimination in Botswana against the Bushman people. When the orphan daughter of a Bushman who was raised by an English missionary grows up and goes to teach in a remote village she becomes the target of contempt and hatred by both adults and children, who had taken it for granted for too long that Bushmen (of the Masarwa tribe) were only on Earth to be their slaves. Then two prominent men fall in love with the lady and wage war against each other for her sake, the first time since their long years of friendship.


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