The Prophet's Camel Bell: Penguin Modern Classics Edition [Paperback]

When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land.

The Prophet’s Camel Bell is part travelogue, part autobiography, part celebration of human nature, and essential reading for anyone who has ever been a stranger in a strange land.Praise for Margaret Laurence and The Prophet's Camel Bell

Laurence . . . remains, for many readers, the defining conscious of 20th century Canadian literary fiction as well as a major influence on Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood. —The Irish Times

Margaret Laurence . . . stands as one of the wisest and most powerfully incisive writers in our literature. —Quill & Quire

The Prophet’s Camel Bell has a timeless feeling about it that sets the work quite apart from the usual books of travel and adventure in distant and exotic parts.” —Canadian Literature
MARGARET LAURENCE was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen. From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa.

When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: her firstl#0