|
|
Sithole, Ndabaningi ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
1 |
Sithole, Ndabaningi The Polygamist
New York The Third Press/Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., Inc. 1972 0-89388-036-1 / 9780893880361 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dj Illustrated by (book design) Bennie Arrington
[solid clean copy, light wear to cloth along bottom edge and at top of spine; jacket lightly rubbed, a few tiny nicks along top edge, one short closed tear at bottom of rear panel]. Set in a Rhodesian tribal village, the plot revolves around the relationship between the village patriarch and his seven wives (who are not entirely satisfied with their lot in life), which is further complicated by the return of the man's eldest son, who has been away for many years, who not only brings with him many Western/European ideas, but also announces his intention to marry just one woman -- whereupon his father determines to "save his son from the certain disaster of monogamous union." According to the jacket blurb, the tale's depiction of "the relentless clash of old and new values [symbolizes] the experience of the entire African nation." This was the first and (I think) only novel by an important figure in the African nationalist movement, who founded the Zimbabwe African National Union and spent ten years in a Rhodesian prison after the organization was banned in 1964. (The novel was written and published while he was serving his sentence.) Following his release, a power struggle between Sithole and his former comrade, Robert Mugabe, split the ZANU, with Mugabe and his more violent faction rising to power in 1980; a few years later, Sithole went into self-imposed exile in the U.S. for nearly ten years. He returned in 1992, but soon ran into yet more trouble with Mugabe.
Price:
15.00 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Bookbill.net
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Doullbooks.com
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Easychairbooks.com
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Edconroybooks.com
| Sithole, Ndabaningi on Kbookscanada.com
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Priorbooks.com
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Rainydaypaperback.com
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Rarenonfiction.com
| Sithole, Ndabaningi on Serendipitybooks.com.au
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Sweetbeagle.com
Sithole, Ndabaningi on Thebookscene.com
|
|
|
