The son of the house / Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto : Dundurn, 2020Description: 304 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781459747081 (softcover)
- 823/.92 23
- cci1icc
- Issued also in electronic formats
- Winner of the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair 2019.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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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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