This novel is a perceptive testimony to the plight of articulate women who live in social milieux dominated by attitudes and values that deny them their proper place. It is a sequence of reminiscences, some wistful, some bitter, recounted by a recently widowed Senegalese school teacher. The letter, addressed to an old friend, is a record of her emotional struggle for survival after her husband's abrupt decision to take a second wife. Although his action is sanctioned by Islam, it is a calculated betrayal of his wife's trust and a brutal rejection of their life together.

So long a letter (African writers series)

Literature & Fiction

Bâ, Mariama

Short Stories & Anthologies

Heinemann

2008 PEARSON LIMITED trade paperback, 3rd printing. Mariama Ba (Scarlet Song). Addressed to a lifelong friend, Aissatou, it is a record of Ramatoulaye's emotional struggle for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by taking a second wife.

So Long a Letter (African Writers)

SO LONG A LETTER

Winner of the Noma Award for publishing in Africa, this novel paints a portrait of a woman who, with courage and dignity, refuses to accept a polygamous life. Though her husband's action is sanctioned by Islam, to her it is a brutal denial of their years together.

Contemporary

London: Virago

So Long a Letter

Apollo

UNE SI LONGUE LETTRE

Une si longue lettre (French Edition)

Nouvelles éditions africaines

Second roman, posthume, de Mariama Bâ, sur le sujet d'un mariage mixte (les protagonistes en sont Mireille de la Vallée et Ousmane Guèye) qui échoue, et du poids de la famille et de la culture dans cet échec.

Un chant écarlate (French Edition)

The acclaimed francophone book on all AP French required reading lists.

Une Si Longue Lettre

History

Mariama Bâ

Africa

Distribooks, Inc

Ramatoulaye, mwanamke Msenegali ameolewa na Mody, mtu mzito serikalini. Baada ya miaka mingi ya ndoa Modu anaoa mke mwingine, msichana mdogo mwenye umri sawa na wa binti yake. Ramatolaye anasahauliwa; pesa na mapenzi vinahamia kwa mke mdogo. Modu anakufa katika ajali ya gari. Nani atakayerithi mali za marehemu? Halafu kuna umati uliokuja kwenye kilio ambao “lazima ulishwe na upewe pesa kwa heshima ya marehemu”. Mariana Ba, mwandishi wa riwaya hii, alikuwa wa kwanza kupewa tuzo ya Noma mwaka 1980. Riwaya hii imetafsiriwa katika lugha kumi na nane na umaarufu wake unazidi kukua.
Originally published in French as Une si longue lettre this book, written by the great Senegalese writer Mariama Ba, is the Swahili translation from the English, by the late Professor Maganga. Une si longue letter is a classic of the African canon it won the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1980, and has been translated into 17 other languages.

Barua Ndefu Kama Hii (Swahili Edition)

Literary

Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers

Une si longue lettre (Roman) (French Edition)

Independently published

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