
Rainmaker
Don Pinnock(Author)
Jacana Media (Publisher)
Published on 10. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-77009-780-3 (ISBN)
Description
Although fictional, this coming-of-age novel accurately reflects a massive crisis of identity among young men in South Africa's ghettoes. For some of them nothing has changed, and Nelson Mandela's dream of a rainbow nation of opportunity is a bitter joke.
Envisioning another kind of life for these kids, this story follows Ky, a young gang member who gets into trouble and is forced to flee his community and the people he knows.
Saved from certain death by a stranger who reads his dreams, Ky is invited to go deep into the forbidding mountains and study with Zimry, a Bushman shaman, who becomes a mentor and helps Ky find his calling.
Envisioning another kind of life for these kids, this story follows Ky, a young gang member who gets into trouble and is forced to flee his community and the people he knows.
Saved from certain death by a stranger who reads his dreams, Ky is invited to go deep into the forbidding mountains and study with Zimry, a Bushman shaman, who becomes a mentor and helps Ky find his calling.
Reviews / Votes
All the makings of a classic... Spellbinding." - Sindiwe Magona, author, Beauty's GiftMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Johannesburg
South Africa
Publishing group
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77009-780-3 (9781770097803)
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Person
Don Pinnock is a criminologist, a policy analyst, and a senior lecturer at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He is a specialist in adolescent deviance and a founder of Usiko, a rehabilitation organization for high-risk youths, and Umzi Wethu, a residential program for AIDS orphans. He is the author of Blue Ice: Travels in Antarctica; Gangs, Rituals and Rites of Passage; Love Letters to Africa; and The Woman Who Lived in a Tree & Other Perfect Stories.