Winner of the Noma Award for publishing in Africa, this novel paints a portrait of a woman who, with courage and dignity, refuses to accept a polygamous life. Though her husband's action is sanctioned by Islam, to her it is a brutal denial of their years together.
As Mariama Ba wrote this, her second novel, she was aware that she was dying, yet she writes with crusading vigour in defence of women, as one who revels in the art of story-telling.
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