A girl named disaster
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
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| Subject |
| Shona (African people) > Juvenile fiction. Shona (African people) > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Supernatural > Fiction. Mozambique > Fiction. Zimbabwe > Fiction. |
| Genre |
| Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0140386351
- Physical Description 309 pages : map
- Publisher New York : Puffin Books, 1998.
- Copyright ©1996
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: [New York] Orchard Books, 1996. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309) |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC $6.99 |