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Possessing the Secret of Joy

Door Alice Walker

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#426691-XQ34
Titel
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Auteur
Walker, Alice
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Vintage
Jaar van uitgave
1993
ISBN10
0099268817
ISBN13
9780099268819
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The stunning "New York Times" bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple," reissued in a handsome new edition. From the author the "New York Times Book Review" calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in "The Color Purple" whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence. "Possessing the Secret of Joy," out of print for a number of years, was the first novel to deal with this controversial topic and managed to do so in a manner that "Cosmopolitan" called "masterful, honorable, and unforgettable storytelling." T... (Lees verder)he New Press is proud to bring the book back into print with a new preface by the author addressing the book's initial reception and the changed attitudes toward female genital mutilation that have come about in part because of this book.
Pagina's
270
Conditie
Goed — Crease in spine; small crease in back cover.
Prijs
€ 8,00

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