 First edition cover | |
| Author | Bessie Head |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Set in | Eastern Botswana, 1960s |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print: hardback octavo |
| Pages | 188 |
| ISBN | 0435121685 |
| OCLC | 251800534 |
| 823.914 | |
| LC Class | PR9408.B553H4 |
| Followed by | Maru |
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]
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- ^ Accone, Darryl (6 July 2021). "Why Bessie Head wrote". News24.
- ^ Jagne, Siga Fatima; Parekh, Pushpa Naidu (12 November 2012). Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Routledge. ISBN 9781136593970 – via Google Books.
- ^ Head, Bessie (22 April 1968). "When Rain Clouds Gather". openpublishing.psu.edu.