{"product_id":"efuru","title":"Efuru","description":"\u003cp\u003eAppearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931-1993) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a mother. Her eventual tragedy is that she is not able to marry or raise children successfully. Alone and childless, Efuru realizes she surely must have a higher calling and goes to the lake goddess of her tribe, Uhamiri, to discover the path she must follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles of a nation exploited by colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther titles by African writers from Waveland Press:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmadi, The Concubine (ISBN 9781478634607)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndreas, The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (ISBN 9781478634584)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBa, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCampbell, My Children Have Faces (ISBN 13 9781478635017)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHead, The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHead, Maru (ISBN 9781478607618)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHead, A Question of Power (ISBN 9781478634690)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHead, When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKubuitsile, The Scattering (ISBN 9781478634591)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ep'Bitek, Song of Lawino \u0026amp; Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roots Bookstore \u0026 Market","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51356043804839,"sku":"9781478611011","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/8312\/8231\/files\/9781478611011.jpg?v=1789752498","url":"https:\/\/rootsbookstore.com\/products\/efuru","provider":"Roots Bookstore \u0026 Market","version":"1.0","type":"link"}