A GIRL NAMED DISASTER.
by Farmer, Nancy
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine (as new.)
- ISBN 10
- 185881622X
- ISBN 13
- 9781858816227
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Synopsis
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where a young girl named Nhamo (which means "disaster" in Shona) is told by a shaman that she will have to marry the brother of a man her father murdered, to rid her village of an epidemic of cholera. The brother of Gore Mtoko is said to be a middle-aged and evil man who is already married. Nhamo is instructed by her ill grandmother to run away and find her father in Zimbabwe.
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- 47411
- Title
- A GIRL NAMED DISASTER.
- Author
- Farmer, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED -
- Book Condition
- New Fine (as new.)
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 185881622X
- ISBN 13
- 9781858816227
- Publisher
- Dolphin Paperback (Orion),
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (1996.)
- Keywords
- shona, zimbabwe, mozambique, africa, newbery honor award, national book award finalist,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated;
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