Description
A Commonwealth Prize-winning novel of "intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society" by the acclaimed Ghanaian author (Publishers Weekly).
Living in Ghana's capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her ), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man--wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage--the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.
Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, according to Manthia Diawara, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature." In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan "places Aidoo's work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer who] sheds light on women's problems around the globe" (Publishers Weekly).
Author: Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 11/01/1993
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781558610651
ISBN10: 1558610650
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | Women
About the Author
Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Ghana's most distinguished writers, won the 1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Division, for the novel Changes. She is also the author of two plays, poetry, and another novel, Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections From a Black-eyed Squint.