A girl named disaster
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.
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Subject |
Shona (African people) > Juvenile fiction. Shona (African people) > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Supernatural > Fiction. Mozambique > Fiction. Zimbabwe > Fiction. |
Genre |
Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0140386351
- Physical Description 309 pages : map
- Publisher New York : Puffin Books, 1998.
- Copyright ©1996
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: [New York] Orchard Books, 1996. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309) |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC $6.99 |
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A Girl Named Disaster
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Summary
A Girl Named Disaster
Nhamo's mother is dead, and her father is gone. She is a virtual slave in her small African village. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo learns that she must marry a cruel man with three other wives and decides desperately to run away. Alone on the river, in a stolen boat, she is swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake. There, she battles drowning, starvation, and wild animals, and comes to know Africa's mystical, luminous spirits. Nancy Farmer's masterful storytelling makes this a truly spellbinding novel and readers will be cheering for Nhamo from beginning to end. A gripping adventure, equally a survival story and a spiritual voyage. Nhamo is a stunning creation while she serves as a fictional ambassador from a foreign culture, she is supremely human. An unforgettable work.