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Author Amadou Amal, Djaïli, author.

Title The impatient : a novel / Djaïli Amadou Amal ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.

Edition First HarperVia edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3009004~S1
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 Nichols Adult Fiction  F AMADOU    AVAILABLE
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Description 162 pages ; 22 cm
Note Originally published as Les Impatientes in France in 2020 by Éditions Emmanuelle Collas.
Summary "Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Forced marriage -- Islamic countries -- Fiction.
Women -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Fiction.
Women -- Abuse of -- Fiction.
Genre Novels.
Added Author Ramadan, Emma, translator.
Added Title Impatientes. English.
ISBN 9780063141629 (hardcover)
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