Buchi Emecheta

The Joys of Motherhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A feminist literary classic by one of Africa's greatest women writers, re-issued with a new introduction by Stéphane Robolin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: George Braziller
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780807616239
• ISBN-10: 0807616230
• Artikelnr.: 36647331

Autorenporträt

Born of Ibo parents in Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta is widely known for her multilayered stories of black women struggling to maintain their identity and construct viable lives for themselves and their families. She writes, according to The New York Times, with "subtlety, power, and abundant compassion." Her numerous novels include The Slave Girl, The Family, Bride Price, and The Joys of Motherhood.

Rezensionen

I read and admired all her books ... The book I adored most was The Joys of Motherhood, for its sparkling intelligence and a certain kind of honest, lived, intimate insight into working-class colonial Nigeria Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie