by Buchi Emecheta, Rosemary Border · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230599
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«The Bride Price» is the novel by Buchi Emecheta adapted by Rosemary Border, published by Oxford University Press in hardback (104 pages, in English).
After her father's death, Aku-nna and her younger brother are left destitute; her uncle takes them in because he sees her as a source of income: the bride price her future husband will pay. A man guides her in her new home towards adult life and between them a love is born that defies conventions; the world tries to separate them until something breaks.
Graded reader from the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 5, with a vocabulary of 1800 words. The original novel by Buchi Emecheta was published in 1976.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language, aged 17 and up.
Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other novels include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948".
