| Title : | The bride price | | Other title : | Upper-Intermediate | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Buchi Emecheta ; Rosemary Border | | Edition statement: | Simplified ed. | | Publisher: | Oxford : Oxford University Press | | Publication Date: | 2008 | | Series: | Oxford bookworms library No. stage 5. | | Pagination: | 104 p. | | Layout: | ill., map | | Size: | 20 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-19-479218-9 | | General note: | Includes glossary and activities. | | Abstract: | When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her.
In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they are drawn together - until, finally, something has to break. |
The bride price ; Upper-Intermediate [printed text] / Buchi Emecheta ; Rosemary Border . - Simplified ed. . - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008 . - 104 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. - ( Oxford bookworms library; stage 5.) . ISBN : 978-0-19-479218-9 Includes glossary and activities. | Abstract: | When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her.
In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they are drawn together - until, finally, something has to break. |
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