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Author Chiziane, Paulina, 1955- author.

Title The first wife : a tale of polygamy / Paulina Chiziane ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F CHIZIANE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-CHI    Check Shelf
Edition First Archipelago books edition.
Description 494 pages ; 17 cm
Summary In this, a ground-breaking publication in the canon of non-Western women's literary history, Paulina Chiziani -- the first woman from Mozambique ever to publish a novel -- lifts the lid on her country's values and its hypocracies. After 20 years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double -- or rather, a quintuple -- life. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women -- as well as an additional lover -- according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights.
Language Translated from the Portuguese.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Romance fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921732
Romance fiction.
Subject Polygamy -- Mozambique -- Maputo -- Fiction.
Mozambique -- Fiction.
Polygamy. (OCoLC)fst01070459
Mozambique. (OCoLC)fst01214418
Mozambique -- Maputo. (OCoLC)fst01203771
Added Author Brookshaw, David, translator.
Added Title Niketche. English
ISBN 9780914671480 paperback
0914671480 paperback
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