By Mariama Ba
Written by means of award-winning African novelist Mariama Ba and translated from the unique French, So lengthy a Letter has been well-known as one in every of Africa's a hundred most sensible Books of the 20 th Century. The short narrative, written as a longer letter, is a series of reminiscences—some wistful, a few bitter—recounted by way of lately widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong pal, Aissatou, it's a list of Ramatoulaye's emotional fight for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by means of taking a moment spouse. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of knowledgeable and articulate Muslim girls. Angered via the traditions that let polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu ruled by way of attitudes and values that deny them prestige equivalent to males. Ramatoulaye hopes for a global the place the easiest of outdated customs and new freedom should be mixed.
Considered a vintage of latest African women's literature, So lengthy a Letter is a must-read for an individual drawn to African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country.
Winner of the distinguished Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
Titles of comparable curiosity from Waveland Press: Beti (trans. Moore), The terrible Christ of Bomba (ISBN 9781577664185); Emecheta, Kehinde (ISBN 9781577664192); Equiano (ed. Edwards), Equiano's Travels (ISBN 9781577664871); l. a. Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251); Marechera, The apartment of Hunger (ISBN 9781478604730); and Oyono (trans. Reed), Houseboy (ISBN 9781577669883).
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