Changes: A Love Story

Changes: A Love Story

Ama Ata Aidoo, Tuzyaline Jita Allan (Afterword by)
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Publication Date: November 1st, 1993
Publisher:
Feminist Press
ISBN:
9781558610651
Pages:
208
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Description

Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her ), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man--wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage--the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems. Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.

About the Author

Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Ghana's most distinguished writers, won the 1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Division, for the novel Changes. She is also the author of two plays, poetry, and another novel, Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections From a Black-eyed Squint.