The Stillborn
Alkali, Zaynab
The Stillborn - Longman Group Ltd 1984 - 106
This novel takes one to the heart of an African village, into huts and down to streams to collect water and firewood, as we follow Li’s choices in life. One cannot ignore the harsh patriarchal rules imposed on women in this society. Women are meant to stay home and wait for proposals, or for their husbands to come home. Women wait, while men go out in search of their destinies...
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Fiction
The Stillborn - Longman Group Ltd 1984 - 106
This novel takes one to the heart of an African village, into huts and down to streams to collect water and firewood, as we follow Li’s choices in life. One cannot ignore the harsh patriarchal rules imposed on women in this society. Women are meant to stay home and wait for proposals, or for their husbands to come home. Women wait, while men go out in search of their destinies...
0-582-78600-2
Fiction