Rumours of Rain (Afrikaans: Gerugte van Reen) is a South African novel by André Brink, published in 1978.

Louis, an army veteran who served in Angola during Operation Savannah, is traumatized and silent since his return to civilian life.

When he then visits the family graveyard for one last time, loses his glasses, so that from then on the egocentric man is in every sense of the word "blind" to the events happening around him.

The visit of a few neighbours, who are also farmers, shows that most people in the area are selling their land, which is regarded by those who stay on their family farms as treason.

When Martin – still almost blind without his glasses – gets lost in the jungle on a short walk, almost not making it back to the farm where he was born and raised; he does not belong here.