The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Beschreibung

Named one of the five best dark comedy novels of all time by Oyinkan Braithwaite<BR>Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction<BR>Coming soon to Netflix<BR><BR>'Comic, tragic, topical and entertaining in equal measure' - Bernardine Evaristo<BR><BR>To the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi.

She is a graduate and therefore considered a great prize in Nigeria, but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. She only wants to escape to a quiet life, but the others disapprove of the newest, youngest, cleverest addition to the family. Treated with respect by her husband, she is viewed with suspicion by her seniors - who fear she may unlock their well-guarded secret. <BR><BR>Through the voices of Baba Segi and his four wives, Lola Shoneyin weaves a vibrant story of love, secrets and a family like every other - happy and unhappy, truthful and not, sometimes kind, sometimes competitive, always bound by blood, and the past.

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