| Description |
278 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: Cape Town, South Africa : Penguin Books, 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. |
| Form |
Issued also in electronic formats |
| Subject |
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Africa -- Fiction.
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Nigeria -- Fiction.
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Kidnapping. (OCoLC)fst00987322
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Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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Nigeria. (OCoLC)fst01205229
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi, 1978- Son of the house. Toronto : Dundurn, 2020 1459747097 9781459747098 (OCoLC)1129582788 |
| ISBN |
9781459747081 (softcover) |
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1459747089 (softcover) |
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