![]() ![]() In this book Mozambique’s first published female novelist (you read that right) weaves the story of Rami, wife to Tony and mother to several children. I love fiction that takes me to a place I don’t know and drops me into the thick of things, and The First Wife is a delicious example. ![]() In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique’s first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country’s traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women–as well as an additional lover–according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband’s duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double–or rather, a quintuple–life. ![]()
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