Overview
Region
West Africa
Ghana
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Esi, a successful Ghanaian professional, leaves her first husband after he rapes her and enters a polygamous marriage believing it will grant more freedom, Aidoo's unsentimental exploration of love, work, and feminist possibility in contemporary Accra.
Literary Significance
Won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa 1992; Aidoo is Ghana's foremost feminist writer