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The joys of motherhood : a novel / by Buchi Emecheta.
The story is set primarily in Lagos, Nigeria, between the 1930s and 1960s. Nnu Ego, a hard-working, optimistic Ibo woman, remains fiercely determined to save her children from the devastation of war, the erosion of village life, and the breakdown of tradition.
Record details
- ISBN: 0807609145
- ISBN: 9780807609149
- ISBN: 0807609501
- ISBN: 9780807609507
- ISBN: 9780807616093
- ISBN: 0807616095
- ISBN: 9780807616239
- ISBN: 0807616230
- Physical Description: 224 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : G. Braziller, 1979.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1. The Mother -- 2. The Mother's mother -- 3. The mother's early life -- 4. First shocks of motherhood -- 5. A failed woman -- 6. A man is never ugly -- 7. The duty of a father -- 8. The rich and the poor -- 9. A mother's investment -- 10. A man needs many wives -- 11. Sharing a husband -- 12. Men at war -- 13. A good daughter -- 14. Women alone -- 15. The soldier father -- 16. A mother of clever children -- 17. A daughter's honour -- 18. The canonised mother.
- Additional Physical Form available Note:
- Also issued online.
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- Motherhood > Nigeria > Fiction.
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Motherhood.
Nigeria. - Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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