Okaparanta, Chinelo

Under the udala trees ; a novel / Chinelo Okparanta. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2015 - 328 p. ; 22 cm.

Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community. When the pair are discovered, she must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices. Even as her nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Ijeoma seeks a glimmer of hope for a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love.


English.

9780544003446


Nigeria---Fiction

PS3615.K73 / U53 2015

FIC OKP