The son of the house / Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia.
Publication details: Toronto : Dundurn, 2020.Description: 304 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781459747081 (pbk.)
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- Winner of the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair 2019.
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Fiction | Hanover Public Library Shelves | FIC ONYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001211672 |
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Originally published: Cape Town, South Africa : Penguin Books, 2019.
"Celebrating the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world. In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers' endless chores. Although a housemaid since the age of ten, she is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man's son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery love-struck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife. When dramatic events straight out of a movie force Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate. Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia's debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria, and celebrates the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world."--Publisher.
Winner of the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair 2019.
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