Emecheta, Buchi
The Bride Price / Buchi Emecheta ; retold by Rosemary Border - Third edition - 104 pages : Illustrations ; 19 cm. - Oxford Bookworms Library. Human Interest . - Oxford Bookworms Library. Human Interest .
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.
9780194792189
English science fiction novel
Bride price --Fiction--Nigeria
813.5 / / E533b
The Bride Price / Buchi Emecheta ; retold by Rosemary Border - Third edition - 104 pages : Illustrations ; 19 cm. - Oxford Bookworms Library. Human Interest . - Oxford Bookworms Library. Human Interest .
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.
9780194792189
English science fiction novel
Bride price --Fiction--Nigeria
813.5 / / E533b