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Na Nigéria dos anos 60, Adah precisa lutar contra todo tipo de opressão cultural que recai sobre as mulheres. O que ela não esperava era encontrar, em um país visto por muitos nigerianos como uma espécie de terra prometida, novos obstáculos tão desafiadores quanto os da terra natal. Além do racismo e da xenofobia que Adah até então não sabia existir, ela se depara com uma recepção nada acolhedora de seus próprios compatriotas, enfrenta a dominação do marido e a violência doméstica e aprende que, dos cidadãos de segunda classe, espera-se apenas submissão.

A tale of hardship and social injustice, Miss Purdy's Class by Annie Murray is a heartfelt saga with strong emotional relationships at its heart, read by actress Annie Aldington. In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged twenty-one, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of...

Kitty Underhay is looking forward to a week of long lunches and wedding planning with her husband-to-be, Captain Matthew Bryant. But the plan is derailed when he is called on to collect a former comrade-in-arms, arriving on the 15:50 from Paddington. As the train bearing Simon Travers pulls up to the platform, a piercing scream rises over the screech of its brakes. Travers is dead in his seat, a dagger in his heart. Only a few individuals had access to Travers’s compartment, and Kitty must find out which of these seemingly benign passengers is, in fact, a cross-country killer.

Adah ist ein begabtes Mädchen, das in einfachen Verhältnissen in Nigeria aufwächst und mehr will, viel mehr. Sie kämpft für ihre Bildung und Freiheit, geht schließlich mit ihrem Mann nach London, wo er sich als Taugenichts entpuppt. Es bleibt alles an Adah hängen: die Ernährung ihrer Familie, das Großziehen der fünf Kinder, die Suche nach einem Wohnort. Außerdem muss sie die ständigen Gewaltausbrüche ihres Mannes aushalten. Als er ihr erstes Manuskript verbrennt, zieht sie mit den Kindern aus.

Benjamin Disraeli’s powerful, polemical story of love across the class divide Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels of all time, Disraeli’s classic 1845 ‘condition-of-England’ novel exposes the inequality and exploitation endemic in 19th century Britain, and the vast gulf...

In this atmospheric novel set in the Jim Crow South, a powerful Black family fights to protect their empire—an "unforgettable must-read" for readers of Tayari Jones (Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling author). Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker turned political boss...