A girl named disaster
By: Nancy Farmer.
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction; Shona (African people) -- Fiction; Survival -- Fiction; Supernatural -- Fiction; Mozambique -- Fiction; Zimbabwe -- 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.