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House Woman
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ISBN-13:
9780008502720
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.06.2023
Seiten:
270
Autor:
Adorah Nworah
Gewicht:
297 g
Format:
213x136x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Adorah Nworah is an Igbo writer from South-East Nigeria. Her stories have been published in AFREADA and adda magazine. Her short stories, "The Bride" and "Broken English" made the shortlist for the 2019 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the longlist for the 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize respectively. She lives in Philadelphia, where she practices real estate finance law and is cat mom to her handsome Napoleon cat.
From Lagos, Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her, but none of them are kept. A few months later, self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents’ kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is his wife, there to give them the grandson they’ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife.
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