Adah, a young Ibo woman, in London with her student husband, determines to hold her own against her people's and her husband's demands for womanly subservience and the pressures of an unsympathetic white society
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Review:
"Miss Emecheta's prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being reinvented. . . . Issues of survival lie inherent in her material and give her tales weight."
[Adah] is a heroine who excites sympathy and admiration in this completely engrossing melting-pot novel.
About the Author:
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.
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- PublisherGeorge Braziller
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0807608017
- ISBN 13 9780807608012
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages174
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