A girl named Disaster
By: Nancy Farmer.
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction; Shona (African people) -- Fiction; Survival -- Fiction; Supernatural -- Fiction; Mozambique -- Fiction; Zimbabwe -- Fiction; Africa -- Fiction
Description: While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309).
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