Because pula means rain

Plot

Emmanuel Must Take A Dangerous Journey Back In Time And Memory. He Must Face Down His Own Fears, And The Burried Fears Of His People. He Must Right A Terrible Wrong That Was Committed Many Years Ago. Gold Sanlam-prize For Youth Literature : 2000. I Believe In Ghosts, Says Emmanuel, Looking Out Across A Landscape Turned Silver Under The Full Botswana Moon. Emmanuel's Grandmother Does Not Believe In Ghosts, But In Such A Wide And Open Land, Spread Out Under Such A Wide And Open Sky, There Is Room Enough For Many Beliefs And Many Truths. Because The Ghosts Believe In Emmanuel. Ghosts Are The Shadows Of The Past That Still Fall Upon The Present, And Emmanuel And His Village Have Yet To Face The Terrible Secret That Lies Buried In Their History. For The Curse To Be Lifted And For Peace To Return To The Community, Emmanuel Must Take A Dangerous Journey Back In Time And Memory. He Must Face Down His Own Fears, And The Buried Fears Of His People. He Must Right A Terrible Wrong That Was Committed Many Years Ago, On A Night In Which There Was No Moon At All. Jenny Robson. Awarded The 2000 Sanlam Gold Prize For Youth Literature.