- Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Supernatural, Survival
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Nancy Farmer
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Orchard Books, Puffin Books, Penguin Putnam~trade
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780531088890
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