Girl /
O'Brien, Edna
Girl / Edna O'Brien. - 230 p. : 1 ill. ; 22 cm
Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of north-eastern Nigeria, through the forest and beyond; a place where her traumas are met with the blinkered judgement of a society in denial.
How do we love in a world that has lost its moorings? How can we comprehend the barbarism of our enemies, and learn forgiveness? Edna O'Brien's new novel pierces to the heart of these questions: and the result is her masterpiece.
9780571341177 : (pbk.)
GBB9B5751 bnb
Boko Haram
Abduction--Fiction.
Women--Violence against--Fiction.
Islamic fundamentalism.
Nigeria--Fiction.
823.914
Girl / Edna O'Brien. - 230 p. : 1 ill. ; 22 cm
Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of north-eastern Nigeria, through the forest and beyond; a place where her traumas are met with the blinkered judgement of a society in denial.
How do we love in a world that has lost its moorings? How can we comprehend the barbarism of our enemies, and learn forgiveness? Edna O'Brien's new novel pierces to the heart of these questions: and the result is her masterpiece.
9780571341177 : (pbk.)
GBB9B5751 bnb
Boko Haram
Abduction--Fiction.
Women--Violence against--Fiction.
Islamic fundamentalism.
Nigeria--Fiction.
823.914