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Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia

by Paulina Chiziane

Prémio Camões · 2021 · Winner
CaminhoLiterary Fiction

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Prémio Camões2021Winner

About This Book

A novel about a woman who discovers her husband has four other wives and decides to organize them all, a story of female solidarity and the confrontation with traditional gender roles in Mozambican society.

About the Author

Paulina Chiziane is a Mozambican novelist born in 1955 in Manjacaze, Gaza Province. She is the first Mozambican woman to publish a novel and is considered the mother of Mozambican fiction. Her work draws on traditional Mozambican oral culture, on the stories of women, and on the social and political history of Mozambique before and after independence. Read more →

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