Changes: A Love Story - Softcover

Aidoo, Ama Ata

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704342618 ISBN 13: 9780704342613

Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd, 1999

Esi, a divorced professional woman in Ghana, falls in love with an attractive married man, but is uncertain she wants to make the changes necessary for a relationship

Review:

"Aidoo writes with intense power in a novel that, in examining the role of women in modern African society, also sheds light on women's problems around the globe."
--Publishers Weekly
"Changes reads... with abundant vernacular style, female friendship, and freedom and mobility in the modern city."
--Manthia Diawara, Director of Africana Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature and Film, New York University
"A powerful novel that explores the complex web of late 20th-century human relationships in ways that are both comic and deeply affecting."
--Boston Phoenix
"A wonderfully warm novel that truly shows that the more things remain the same (love) the more changes we (society) go through."
--Nikki Giovanni, author of Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

About the Author:

Ama Ata Aidoo has distinguished herself as a writer and as a consultant on education and gender issues. She graduated from the University of Ghana and has taught at many universities worldwide, including Stanford in the USA. She was the first woman Minister of Education in Ghana serving in the 1980s, and is the Executive Director of Mbaasem, a foundation to support African women writers and their work. She has written dramas, short stories, novels, poetry and children's books too numerous to list, and her many awards include the Nelson Mandela Prize for Poetry in 1987 and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa in 1992.

• Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0704342618
• ISBN 13: 9780704342613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166