So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)

by Mariama Ba (Author), Modupe Bode - Thomas (Translator)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $6.70

  This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. It is the winner of the Noma Award.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $6.84

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $15.43

  Written by Mariama Ba and translated from the French by Modupe Bode-Thomas, So Long a Letter won the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, and was recognised as one of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century in an initiative organised by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair.

  This edition includes an introduction by Professor Kenneth W. Harrow of Michigan State University.