Changes
A Love Story
1st Edition
Published on 6. December 2018
208 pages
978-1-55861-914-2 (ISBN)
Description
A Commonwealth Prize-winning novel of "intense power... examining the role of women in modern African society" by the acclaimed Ghanaian author(
Publishers Weekly).
Living in Ghana's capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man-wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage-the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.
Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, according to Manthia Diawara, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature." In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan "places Aidoo's work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer [who] sheds light on women's problems around the globe" ( Publishers Weekly).
Living in Ghana's capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man-wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage-the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.
Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, according to Manthia Diawara, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature." In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan "places Aidoo's work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer [who] sheds light on women's problems around the globe" ( Publishers Weekly).
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Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Ghana's most distinguished writers, won the 1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Division, for the novel Changes. She is also the author of two plays, poetry, and another novel, Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections From a Black-eyed Squint.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- To the Reader
- Part I
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Part II
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Part III
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Glossary
- Afterword
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- Notes
- Works Cited
- About the Author
- About Feminist Press
