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Title: Girl: A Novel
Author: Edna O’Brien
Genre: Fiction
Format: Paperback
Book Dimension: 5.4 x 8.2
Number of Pages: 240
Publication Year: October 15, 2019
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 978-0374162559
Available at: Amazon Stores
Short Description: Girl, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.
I was a girl once, but not anymore.
So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century’s greatest living authors, Girl is an unforgettable story of one victim’s astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart.
Category: Coming of Age, Literary
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