The rain bull and other tales from the San - Eugène N. Marais

The charm and enchantment of Eugène Marais' four simple tales are timeless. No reader or listener can stay unmoved by lines like these from Joggom Konterdans's "Song of the rain":

First over the mountain top she looks shyly,

And her eyes are bashful;

And she laughs softly.

And from afar she beckons with one hand. 

Her bracelets shine and her beads shimmer;

Softly she calls.

Marais was one of the first Afrikaans writers to capture indigenous stories. His four "dwaalstories" were published in 1921 for the first time. 

Translated by Jacques Coetzee.