Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435909918
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Adah's desire to write is pitted against the forces of an egotistical and unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent white society.
Second-class Citizen
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435909918
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Adah's desire to write is pitted against the forces of an egotistical and unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent white society.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435909918
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Adah's desire to write is pitted against the forces of an egotistical and unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent white society.
The Country of Absence
Author: Felix Stefanile
Publisher: Bordighera Press
ISBN: 9781599540450
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher: Bordighera Press
ISBN: 9781599540450
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
In the Ditch
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241578124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Sad, sonorous, occasionally hilarious, an extraordinary first novel' Washington Post 'Striking . . . brings sexism and classism into equal focus' The Paris Review Adah is a single mother of five, living in a dank, crumbling housing estate for 'problem families', avoiding the rats and rubbish. It's not quite the new start in London she had planned. As she navigates the complicated welfare system that keeps her trapped in poverty, can she cling to her dream of a better life, and find somewhere that feels like home? Buchi Emecheta's scorching debut novel drew on her own experiences to paint a moving picture of hope, unexpected friendship, and survival. In the Ditch joins The Joys of Motherhood and Second-Class Citizen in Penguin Modern Classics, with a bespoke cover design from Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing' Bernardine Evaristo
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241578124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Sad, sonorous, occasionally hilarious, an extraordinary first novel' Washington Post 'Striking . . . brings sexism and classism into equal focus' The Paris Review Adah is a single mother of five, living in a dank, crumbling housing estate for 'problem families', avoiding the rats and rubbish. It's not quite the new start in London she had planned. As she navigates the complicated welfare system that keeps her trapped in poverty, can she cling to her dream of a better life, and find somewhere that feels like home? Buchi Emecheta's scorching debut novel drew on her own experiences to paint a moving picture of hope, unexpected friendship, and survival. In the Ditch joins The Joys of Motherhood and Second-Class Citizen in Penguin Modern Classics, with a bespoke cover design from Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing' Bernardine Evaristo
Hiding in Plain Sight
Author: Nuruddin Farah
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 1594634106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Adopting her niece and nephew when her half-brother is murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia, half-Somali photographer Bella disciplines her free-spirited nature and reevaluates her options when the children's mother resurfaces."-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 1594634106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Adopting her niece and nephew when her half-brother is murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia, half-Somali photographer Bella disciplines her free-spirited nature and reevaluates her options when the children's mother resurfaces."-- Provided by publisher.
Second-class Citizens, First-class Men, Or, Great Men All Remind Us--
Author: Eva Naomi Hodgson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Second Class Citizens
Author: Stef Benstead
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912712182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The author examines whether the United Nations' severe criticisms of the UK Government's social and economic policies are valid, demonstrating that it has indeed undermined vital human rights and targeted disabled people and other minority groups.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912712182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The author examines whether the United Nations' severe criticisms of the UK Government's social and economic policies are valid, demonstrating that it has indeed undermined vital human rights and targeted disabled people and other minority groups.
The Slave Girl
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435909970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Annotation "Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."-Chicago Tribune.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435909970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Annotation "Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."-Chicago Tribune.
The Joys of Motherhood
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435909727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
...a graceful, touching, ironically titled tale. - John Updike A new edition of her classic novel to coincide with the publication of her other works in the African Writers Series. Nnu Ego is a woman devoted to her children, giving them all her energy, all her worldly possessions, indeed, all her life to them -- with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age. This story of a young mother's struggles in 1950s Lagos is a powerful commentary on polygamy, patriarchy, and women's changing roles in urban Nigeria.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435909727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
...a graceful, touching, ironically titled tale. - John Updike A new edition of her classic novel to coincide with the publication of her other works in the African Writers Series. Nnu Ego is a woman devoted to her children, giving them all her energy, all her worldly possessions, indeed, all her life to them -- with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age. This story of a young mother's struggles in 1950s Lagos is a powerful commentary on polygamy, patriarchy, and women's changing roles in urban Nigeria.
When Rain Clouds Gather
Author: Bessie Head
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478611677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Rural Botswana is the backdrop for When Rain Clouds Gather, the first novel published by one of Africa’s leading woman writers in English, Bessie Head (1937–1986). Inspired by her own traumatic life experiences as an outcast in Apartheid South African society and as a refugee living at the Bamangwato Development Association Farm in Botswana, Head’s tough and telling classic work is set in the poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, a haven to exiles. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionize the villagers’ traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief, and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community. Head’s layered, compelling story confronts the complexities of such topics as social and political change, conflict between science and traditional ways, tribalism, the role of traditional African chiefs, religion, race relations, and male–female relations.
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478611677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Rural Botswana is the backdrop for When Rain Clouds Gather, the first novel published by one of Africa’s leading woman writers in English, Bessie Head (1937–1986). Inspired by her own traumatic life experiences as an outcast in Apartheid South African society and as a refugee living at the Bamangwato Development Association Farm in Botswana, Head’s tough and telling classic work is set in the poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, a haven to exiles. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionize the villagers’ traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief, and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community. Head’s layered, compelling story confronts the complexities of such topics as social and political change, conflict between science and traditional ways, tribalism, the role of traditional African chiefs, religion, race relations, and male–female relations.
The Bride Price
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807616284
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A young Ibo girl named Aku-nna flees an unwanted marriage to be with her true love, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. However, Aku-nna's uncle refuses the bride price from Chike's family, an action that frightens Aku-nna for it foreshadows her own death in childbirth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807616284
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A young Ibo girl named Aku-nna flees an unwanted marriage to be with her true love, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. However, Aku-nna's uncle refuses the bride price from Chike's family, an action that frightens Aku-nna for it foreshadows her own death in childbirth.