The first wife
Subtitle: a tale of polygamy
By: Paulina Chiziane ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw
Contributors: Brookshaw, David, translator
Edition: First Archipelago books edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780914671480
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Polygamy; Fiction
Work titles: Niketche
Description: In this, a ground-breaking publication in the canon of non-Western women's literary history, Paulina Chiziani -- the first woman from Mozambique ever to publish a novel -- lifts the lid on her country's values and its hypocracies. After 20 years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double -- or rather, a quintuple -- life. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women -- as well as an additional lover -- according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights.
Notes: Translated from the Portuguese.