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A girl named Disaster

Nancy Farmer · 1996

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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.

First sentence: Crouched on a branch of a mukuyu tree,a girl tore open a speckled fruit.

Book details

Year
1996
Language
English
Publisher
Puffin Books
Editions
3
Pages
309
ISBN
9780140386356

Data source: Wikidata

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