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When Rain Clouds Gather
First edition cover
AuthorBessie Head
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Set inEastern Botswana, 1960s
PublisherVictor Gollancz
Publication date
1968
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint: hardback octavo
Pages188
ISBN0435121685
OCLC251800534
Dewey Decimal
823.914
LC ClassPR9408.B553H4
Followed byMaru 

When Rain Clouds Gather is the first novel by South African-Motswana author Bessie Head, published in 1968.[1][2][3]

Having left South Africa in 1964, Head wrote the novel while in exile in Botswana, completing it in 1967.[4] It was first published in London by Victor Gollancz and subsequently by William Heinemann (1972), and in the US by Simon & Schuster.[5]

  1. ^ "When Rain Clouds Gather | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "248. When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head*". ImageNations. 12 July 2013.
  3. ^ Accone, Darryl (6 July 2021). "Why Bessie Head wrote". News24.
  4. ^ Jagne, Siga Fatima; Parekh, Pushpa Naidu (12 November 2012). Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Routledge. ISBN 9781136593970 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Head, Bessie (22 April 1968). "When Rain Clouds Gather". openpublishing.psu.edu.

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