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The son of the house / Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : Dundurn, 2020Description: 304 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781459747081 (softcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.92 23
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic formats
Awards:
  • Winner of the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair 2019.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK Meaford Public Library Fiction Fiction FIC Onyem (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Giller Shortlist 2021 21561
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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."-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic formats

Winner of the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair 2019.

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