No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
  • Published:
    Dec-1995
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    170
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From the author of Changes: these stories “of post-independence Ghana in the late 1960s are written beautifully and wisely and with great subtlety” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi).
 
In this short story collection, the award-winning poet and author of Changes and Our Sister Killjoy explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty, humor, and insight. A house servant wonders what independence means in a country where indoor plumbing is still reserved for bosses. A brother tracks down his runaway sister only to find she has become a prostitute. In the title story, a bitter divorce turns tragic when the couple's only child dies of a snake bite.
 
In these and other stories, tradition wrestles with new urban influences as Africans try to sort out their identity in a changing culture, and “even at her gravest, Miss Aidoo writes with a sunny charm” (The New York Times).
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    • Aug-1988
    • Kaplan Publishing
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0582003938
    • ISBN13: 9780582003934
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    • Dec-1995
    • Feminist Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1558611193
    • ISBN13: 9781558611191
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    • Dec-1995
    • Feminist Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1558611185
    • ISBN13: 9781558611184
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    • Apr-2015
    • The Feminist Press at CUNY
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Apr-2015
    • Feminist Press at CUNY, The
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 155861916X
    • ISBN13: 9781558619166



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