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Border, Rosemary, 1943-
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Bride price -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- Fiction.
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Border, Rosemary, 1943-
Bride price -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- Fiction.
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The
bride
price
/ Buchi Emecheta ; retold by Rosemary Border ; series editor, Jennifer Bassett.
by
Border, Rosemary, 1943-
Oxford University Press, 2008, 1989.
Call #:
L FICTION BOR
Subjects
Bride
price
-- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- Fiction.
Series
Oxford bookworms library. Human interest. Stage 5.
Oxford bookworms library. Stage 5.
ISBN:
9780194792189 (softcover)
Edition:
Simplified ed.
Description:
104 p. : ill ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Stage 5 - 1800 headwords.
Word count 22,620.
"Original edition Buchi Emecheta, c1976."--T.p. verso.
Summary:
"When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's '
bride
price
' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they are drawn together - until, finally, something has to break.."--Back cover.
Genre:
Love stories.
Black fiction.
Literacy materials.
Other authors:
Emecheta, Buchi.
Bride
price
. Adaptations.
Bassett, Jennifer.
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Adult Literacy Fiction
L FICTION BOR
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Adult Literacy Fiction
L FICTION BOR
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