The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
by:
Lola Shoneyin (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780784851800
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Cassava Republic
Pages no: 245
Edition language: English
Monogamy is actually impractical from a continuation-of-the-species standpoint, but I've always felt multiple women sharing one man is a homicide waiting to happen. This novel did nothing to disabuse me of that notion. Far from it. The Big Secret was easy to guess despite some halfhearted misdirec...
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is a fascinating glimpse into a different culture as well as an introduction to four very unique wives who are all trying to survive in a world where man is king. Baba Segi is consumed by the idea of having more children, while each of his wives is trying to pro...
2011 long-list Orange PrizeI always forget how much I love african fiction until I read another & then the joy of experiencing a world & culture so different from my own comes flooding back :D
2011 long-list Orange PrizeI always forget how much I love african fiction until I read another & then the joy of experiencing a world & culture so different from my own comes flooding back :D
Countless contemporary novels have taken the landscape of the monogamous marriage and its secrets as their subject, so it’s hardly surprising that a polygamous marriage, like that of Baba Segi, has an abundance of secrets with which to fill the pages of Lola Shoneyin’s debut novel.The dynamics of a ...
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