The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy Contributor(s): Chiziane, Paulina (Author), Brookshaw, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0914671480 ISBN-13: 9780914671480 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2015049933 |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.5" W x 6.5" (1.10 lbs) 250 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over. |