The Son of the House / Penguin Books (South Africa) (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
"We must do something to pass the time, I thought. Two women in a room, hands and feet tied."
Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for...
Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for...
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"We must do something to pass the time, I thought. Two women in a room, hands and feet tied."
Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for them.
When Nwabulu's father dies, her stepmother sends her off to become a housemaid. For years, she suffers the abuse of employers, a love affair with an employer's son offering little comfort. Out of their union a son is born, but the young Nwabulu has to give him up, and is bound to suffer in her stepmother's home again until she can flee, establishing herself as a fashion designer, and finally able to inhabit Julie's world.
Julie: privileged, educated, and adored by her parents. She has the opportunity to become whomever she desires. But sometimes too much choice can be a dangerous thing, and in Julie's case it is. At thirty-four she is still unmarried and, for the first time, there is pressure: a burden that will only be lifted with the birth of a son. So determined is Julie for release that she goes as far as a polygamous marriage.
While the two women wait for the ransom to be paid, fate will once again decide the course of their lives.
Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for them.
When Nwabulu's father dies, her stepmother sends her off to become a housemaid. For years, she suffers the abuse of employers, a love affair with an employer's son offering little comfort. Out of their union a son is born, but the young Nwabulu has to give him up, and is bound to suffer in her stepmother's home again until she can flee, establishing herself as a fashion designer, and finally able to inhabit Julie's world.
Julie: privileged, educated, and adored by her parents. She has the opportunity to become whomever she desires. But sometimes too much choice can be a dangerous thing, and in Julie's case it is. At thirty-four she is still unmarried and, for the first time, there is pressure: a burden that will only be lifted with the birth of a son. So determined is Julie for release that she goes as far as a polygamous marriage.
While the two women wait for the ransom to be paid, fate will once again decide the course of their lives.
Autoren-Porträt von Cheluchi Onyemelukwe
Born in 1978 in Nigeria, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia is a lawyer and academic who has done much advocacy work on issues such violence against women and girls, and health. She holds a doctorate in law from Dalhousie University in Canada and often advises international organisations. An earlier draft of The Son of the House was longlisted in Mslexia's novel writing competition. She currently lives in Lagos.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe
- 2019, 1. Auflage, 248 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
- ISBN-10: 148590403X
- ISBN-13: 9781485904038
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2019
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