An edition of A cowrie of hope (2000)

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An edition of A cowrie of hope (2000)

A cowrie of hope

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"These were the nineties," reflects the narrator of A Cowrie of Hope, and for the young widow Nasula they are years of relentless economic hardship and privation. She dreams of a better life for her beautiful daughter, Sula, free from poverty and independent of marriage. But when Nasula finds herself unable to pay for Sula's education, her hopes seem to have been extinguished - until a friend advised her to go to Lusaka and sell her last sack of highly sought-after Mbala beans. Nasula makes the journey, but in the city she finds herself exposed to new, and predatory, dangers.

In A Cowrie of Hope Binwell Sinyangwe captures the rhythms of a people whose poverty has not diminished their dignity, where hope can only be accompanied by small acts of courage, and where friendship has not lost its value.

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Publisher
Heinemann
Language
English
Pages
152

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A cowrie of hope
2000, Heinemann
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Edition Notes

Published in
Oxford [England], Portsmouth, NH
Series
African writers series
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9405.9.S49 C69 2000, PR9405.9.S49C69 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3968517M
Internet Archive
cowrieofhope00siny
ISBN 10
043591202X
LCCN
2001274673
OCLC/WorldCat
45588459
Library Thing
8747097
Goodreads
600080

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