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المواصفات
| الناشر | The Borough Press |
| رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 13 | 9780008502713 |
| رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 10 | 0008502714 |
| الكاتب | Adorah Nworah |
| تنسيق الكتاب | Hardcover |
| اللغة | English |
| وصف الكتاب | ‘Unique, bold and unsettling’ Aiwanose Odafen‘Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson’ Amy Gentry–––My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife.One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her – about her education, about the man she will marry, about her freedom.None of them are kept.A few months later, self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents’ kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is his wife, there to give them the grandson they’ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable.But she is no ordinary wife.In the Texas heat, patience runs on short supply and the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly strained, increasingly violent. Desperation makes people do strange things…Unpredictable and unsettling, HOUSE WOMAN is a delicious thriller you will never be able to forget.–––‘Haunting . . . a neo-gothic thriller, complete with a magnificently horrifying villain’ Daily Mail‘A modern successor to Gaslight: disorienting and disturbing’ Kirkus Review‘Unflinching, unforgettable’ Layne Fargo‘Gripping’ Glamour‘Impressive and moving’ Irish Times |
| عن المؤلف | Adorah Nworah is an Igbo writer from South-East Nigeria. Her stories have been published in AFREADA and adda magazine. Her short stories, “The Bride” and “Broken English” made the shortlist for the 2019 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the longlist for the 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize respectively. She lives in Philadelphia, where she practices real estate finance law and is cat mom to her handsome Napoleon cat. Read more |
| تاريخ النشر | 2024-01-04 |
| عدد الصفحات | 288 pages |
House Woman: A chilling new domestic literary thriller, perfect for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and Lullaby
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