Without a Voice

Without a Voice

Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide

44,63 €
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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781304538758

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A work of fiction based on the human trafficking scourge ravaging the world today told from the perspectives of two sixteen year old girls who are forced to leave their home in Iseluku which is a small settlement on the eastern part of Nigeria to serve in the towns and cities to earn a living Ginika and Ifeanyi are forced to leave their homes to serve as domestic helps in the more affluent homes in the towns and cities. The book chronicles a two year service period. Things go al-right the first year. Its the second year that things start to go very wrong when through a queer quirk of fate they find themselves in the hands of several unscrupulous men who force them to sell their bodies for months.Eventually the chance for escape comes and they set out across a land they do not know pursued by men who are now determined to kill them.

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