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Beyond the Horizon is the heart-wrenching debut novel by award-winning author Ammo Darko, telling the tale of a young Ghanaian woman tricked into a life of exploitation by her husband.
Mara stares in the mirror, searching for the woman she used to know. The sweet, innocent woman that was excited to marry the man her father chose for her, to start a family and live in a house of her own. But her husband had other plans.
Determined to make his fortune in Europe, Mara's husband expects her to sacrifice everything to make his dreams come true - but the sacrifice is more than she could ever…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Beyond the Horizon is the heart-wrenching debut novel by award-winning author Ammo Darko, telling the tale of a young Ghanaian woman tricked into a life of exploitation by her husband.

Mara stares in the mirror, searching for the woman she used to know. The sweet, innocent woman that was excited to marry the man her father chose for her, to start a family and live in a house of her own. But her husband had other plans.

Determined to make his fortune in Europe, Mara's husband expects her to sacrifice everything to make his dreams come true - but the sacrifice is more than she could ever have imagined...

Beyond the Horizon is a gripping and provocative story of the plight of African women, the lies they were sold about life in Europe, and the false hopes of those they leave behind.
Autorenporträt
Amma Darko was born in Tamale, Ghana in 1956 and grew up in Accra.

She was educated at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, graduating in 1980. During the military coup in Ghana, Darko relocated to Germany where she began writing Beyond the Horizon. She later returned to Ghana and published the debut in 1991, winning the Ghana Book Award in 1998. She has since published seven novels in total, her most notable including Faceless (1996) and Housemaid (1999). Darko currently lives in Accra, Ghana, with her husband and children.