Title The bride price : a novel / by Buchi Emecheta.

Publication Info.

New York : George Braziller, 1976.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	898 NIE53B	Check Shelf
Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department	EMECHETA	Check Shelf

Description	168 pages ; 22 cm
Form	Also issued online.
Summary	A young Ibo girl named Aku-nna flees an unwanted marriage to be with her true love, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. However, Aku-nna's uncle refuses the bride price from Chike's family, an action that frightens Aku-nna for it foreshadows her own death in childbirth.
Audience	Young Adult.
Subject	Bride price -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
	Nigeria -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Bride price. (OCoLC)fst00838638
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Nigeria. (OCoLC)fst01205229
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Love stories.
Other Form:	Online version: Emecheta, Buchi. Bride price. New York : G. Braziller, 1976 (OCoLC)569111761
ISBN	0807608181
	9780807608180
	080760951X (pbk.)
	9780807609514 (pbk.)
	0850311659
	9780850311655
	9780807616086
	0807616087

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