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The wrath
- Title
- The wrath / Simeon Uwuoga Adol.
- Author
- Uwuoga Adol, Simeon
- Publication
- Nairobi, Kenya : Neno Publishers and Booksellers, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9381.9.U97 W73 2019 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 178 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Nya'Chula, a woman of rare beauty but whose body is a cage of evil spirits, and should only live with a medicine man, submits herself to be married as a third wife by one of the villagers shortly after her husband dies a 'simple death' but this results into a stiff competition by other men to inherit her. In an effort to deter her stepsons from benefiting out of dowry from her daughters, she hires the services of a mean witch to kill her step son, a sports celebrity upon whom the village pegs its hope on the oncoming inter-village sports festival; the fallen son's sports' mentor is also not spared by the witch. But it is blood for blood; the witch demands to be paid for his services with the life of her daughter. The resulting tragedy sends shock waves in the village, making even the elders who have gathered to chart the way forward fear to express their views under the light emitted by the firefly. This book gives a rare insight into the level of influence that the spirit world had on the society in the past and the people's helplessness in the face of what is mysterious to them."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- ISBN
- 9789966804006
- 9966804005
- LCCN
- 2021315782
- OCLC
- on1290245352
- 1290245352
- SCSB-14539039
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries