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An edition of Efuru (1966)

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After two unsuccessful marriages and the death of her only child, Efuru becomes a woman to suspect in her small Nigerian village.

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Heinemann
Language
English
Pages
221

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Nigerian fiction (English) Fiction, general
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Edition Notes

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Oxford [England], Portsmouth, NH
Series
African writers series -- 26

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR9387.9.N933 E38 1978, PR9387.9.N933, PR9387.9.N92 E4 1966b, PL8011 .A3 no.26

The Physical Object

Pagination
221 p. ;
Number of pages
221

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17246317M
Internet Archive
efuru0000nwap
ISBN 10
0435900269
ISBN 13
9780435900267
LCCN
66070705
OCLC/WorldCat
173797, 33185356, 27123737
LibraryThing
55072
Wikidata
Q5347656
Goodreads
475285

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3659778W

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Work Description

"Appearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931-1993) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a mother. Her eventual tragedy is that she is not able to marry or raise children successfully. Alone and childless, Efuru realizes she surely must have a higher calling and goes to the lake goddess of her tribe, Uhamiri, to discover the path she must follow. The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles of a nation exploited by colonialism"--Page 4 of cover

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