- Social classes, Women, Fiction, Female friendship
"It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule - though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Sefi Atta
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Arris, New Internationalist Publications, Limited, Spinifex Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781623711047
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