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(MEDIE) Peace Adzo Medie ~ His Only Wife: First Edition, Signed

Author ~ Peace Adzo Medie

Title ~ His Only Wife

Edition ~ First Edition

ISBN ~ 9780861541478

Publisher ~ Oneworld Publications

Published ~ 2021

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 278

Format ~ Hardcover 

Condition ~ Near new.

First printing with complete number line and signed by the author. Sprayed edges

Categories ~ #Culture #Family #Humor #Heroine #Fiction #FirstEdition #Signed #PeaceAdzoMedie #9780861541478

“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.”

Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious’s house with his many wives and children. Then one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity—a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man she doesn’t truly know. She acquiesces, but soon realizes that Elikem is not quite the catch he seemed. He sends a stand-in to his own wedding, and only weeks after Afi is married and installed in a plush apartment in the capital city of Accra does she meet her new husband. It turns out that he is in love with another woman, whom his family disapproves of; Afi is supposed to win him back on their behalf. But it is Accra that eventually wins Afi’s heart and gives her a life of independence that she never could have imagined for herself.

A brilliant scholar and a fierce advocate for women’s rights, author Peace Adzo Medie infuses her debut novel with intelligence and humor. For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Candice Carty-Williams, His Only Wife is the story of an indomitable and relatable heroine that illuminates what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world.