Efuru
Novel by Flora Nwapa
Originally published: 1966
Author: Flora Nwapa
Original language: English
Pages: 281 pp (paperback edition)
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The book is about Efuru, an Igbo woman who lives in a small village in colonial West Africa. Throughout the story, Efuru wishes to be a mother, though she is an ...
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It is a fictional based account of a beautiful, amiable young lady following her trials and tribulations amidst a people coming to terms with the onslaught of ...
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The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles ...
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Flora Nwapa's first novel plants her story firmly in the world of women, where Efuru, beautiful and respected, is loved and deserted by two ordinary, ...
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The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles ...
Efuru follows the protagonist, Efuru Ogene, through her adult life as she navigates marriage, motherhood, and independence. The novel is set in a small town in ...
Efuru (1966), Nwapa's first novel, is based on an old folktale of a woman chosen by the gods. Idu (1970) centres on a woman whose life is bound up with that of ...
Telling the tale of a beautiful and wealthy Nigerian woman, Flora Nwapa's Efuru (1966) follows the titular character through two marriages, the birth and ...
Originally published by Heinemann in London in 1966. Efuru is the first novel by a female African author published internationally. It has presented the first ...