by Mariama Bâ, Modupe Bode-Thomas
Miracle joyeux de la naissance, miracle ténébreux de la mort. Entre les deux, une vie, un destin, dit Mawdo Bâ.Son œil égoïste regarde par-dessus l'épaule de sa conjointe. Il compare ce qu'il eut à ce qu'il n'a plus, ce qu'il a à ce qu'il pourrait avoir.Le conducteur n'a pour refuge que son frein, s...
A fascinating & bittersweet look at women's roles (written by a woman) in post-colonial, male-dominated Senegal. Interestingly enough, I read So Long a Letter quite by chance after having just finished [b:Xala|574425|Xala|Ousmane Sembène|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328757709s/574425.jpg|561417] by...
I haven't read this book since I was 13 or so but I remember loving it.
I enjoyed this intimate vision of the life of a Senegalese woman told through a letter written to a friend in the aftermath of becoming widowed. The book is almost entirely about the choices women had and made as career options and social opportunities opened up for them in a modern Senegal. We see ...
A novella about a middle-aged Senegalese woman writing a long letter to her best friend following her husband’s death. The husband, we learn, had abandoned the writer five years before in order to take a second wife, a scenario repeated (with variations) among many families of her acquaintance.This ...
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