Coming to Birth

Name: Coming to Birth
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ISBN: 9781558612495

ISBN-10: 1558612491

ISBN-13: 9781558612495

Edition: 2000

Authors: Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, J. Roger Kurtz

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In this quietly powerful and eminently readable novel, winner of the prestigious Sinclair Prize, Kenyan writer Marjorie Macgoye deftly interweaves the story of one young woman's tumultuous coming of age with the history of a nation emerging from colonialism. At the age of sixteen, Paulina leaves her small village in western Kenya to join her new husband, Martin, in the bustling city of Nairobi. It is 1956, and Kenya is in the final days of the "Emergency," as the British seek to suppress violent anti-colonial revolts. But Paulina knows little about, about city life, or about marriage, and Martin's clumsy attempts to control her soon lead to a relationship filled with silences,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 12/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English