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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780194216456ISBN:0194216454
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 89p. : ill., 1map; 20 cm. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: George Braziller
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780807609514ISBN:080760951X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. An exlibrary paperback in good condition. Spine is marked, barcode on front cover. Cover has light wear to surface and edges, several soft corner creases, light creases to spine. Card pocket inside back, stamps have been blacked out. Pages are clean, unmarked and in very good condition. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: George Braziller
Date published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780807609514ISBN:080760951X
Description: Good. Ex-library copy with usual stamps & pocket. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Cover has scattered scratches. A poignant love story that defies the traditions of tribal life. Very readable copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780194216456ISBN:0194216454
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: NY, George Braziller, 1976.
Description: First Edition. 8vo., 168pp., pictorial wrappers. Hole punched through at upper edge of rear cover, frequent underlinings, some highlighting, two or three comments in ink. ISBN: 80760951X. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: George Braziller
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780807609514ISBN:080760951X
Description: Fine/Paperback. 1st printing. First U.S. edition of award-winning Nigerian author's novel about the tribal "bride price" custom. No marks, clean, straight, bright condition. Braziller trade paperback, 1976 ISBN 0-8076-0951-X read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780194216456ISBN:0194216454
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: George Braziller
Date published: 1976-06-01
ISBN-13:9780807609514ISBN:080760951X
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780807609514. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Servi
Date published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780006145189ISBN:0006145183
Description: Good. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: George Braziller
Date published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780807609514ISBN:080760951X
Description: Acceptable. Former Library Book and/or book has writing/highlighting * If you can deal with the writing/markings, this is a great deal! * read more
"1. The bride price, a fee that is traditionally paid by the prospective husband's family for the prospective wife, is a theme that the author wanted to focus on it. This book reminds me many Turkish movies and stories because bride price is a huge and famous problem in many parts of Turkey especially in east part of Turkey. First, in this book, a woman lost her husband and she has to marriage with her husband's brother. This is a common event in east part of Turkey, and I think it is unacceptable for both woman and man because people are supposed to see their brother's wife as a sister. On the other hand, children cannot confess this situation, their mother and uncle are married. I have a friend whose sister is forced to marriage with her husband's brother; however, she is in thirties and he is in sixties. She is very unhappy and she is the third wife of this man. Second, in this book, although the girl love the boy, her father or uncle does not let her to marriage with him because of bride price. Like in Turkey, they see the girls as a credit. Obviously, they try to sell their daughter. It is a shame. Girls do not have any right to decide their life. If a boy do not have enough money to take his lover, her family never give her to him, so the lovers try to run away their family and they immigrate another city. In Turkey, we have lots of story like this story. They do not have any differences. In all stories, fathers want to more money and force their daughter to marriage with who she does not love. Of course, some people cannot achieve to escape and unfortunately they still live in unwanted life.
14. The author wrote this story because she wanted to point on a common problem that many people have. Like many authors, she tried to show this problem to whole world and definitely she wanted to solve this problem. Books and movies are very useful to introduce and indicate social problems. Probably she saw some problems in her society and she decided to write this story. I think she got characters from her society because as we have seen this story Nigeria has lots of people who have these problems. She tried to share that message; especially bride price is very wrong tradition and her society also has many wrong traditions and people should try to change this system."
"Frankly, I was hoping for so much more from this book. It's a tragic story of a young girl who's life is ruled by the men in her life, first her father, then her uncle, and finally her husband. Aku-nna is a sweet complacent pre-pubesenct girl who is never able to take control of her destiny. To the other characters in this novel she represents only one of two things: a large dowry/bride price, or an object of sexual attraction. It does provide a good insight into the native Ibo culture in West Africa after WW2, but when I was done with this book I still felt no intimate connection to any of the characters."
"Had I not been chosen to read this book for Global Literature, I don't think I would've picked up this book and read it. However, I'm glad that I got the chance to read this book to inform myself of Nigerian tradition and to change my perspective of Africa.
This book starts off with the protagonist Aku-nna, and her brother Nna-ndo who face the death of their father. Because of tradition, they are forced to move with their mother, Ma Blackie, to Lagos in order for her mother to remarry the uncle. There, Aku-nna meets a myriad of people, one of them being Chike, who she later falls in love with unconditionally. Because of their tradition however, Aku-nna is not able to marry Chike because he is the son of a slave, making him also a slave.
This is a story of Aku-nna dealing with her traditions and trying to overcome them. It gives the readers a sense of what African tradition and culture is like, and makes us throw our bias' away. I have to say in the beginning, the book was slow and boring, but as I got into the middle, it was pretty good! :D"
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