TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Brien, Edna
TI  - Girl
SN  - 9780571341184
U1  - Fiction BRI-E 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Survival
KW  - Boko Haram
KW  - Kidnapping victims
KW  - Abduction
KW  - Sexism
KW  - Social pressure
KW  - Young women--Crimes against
N1  - Girl, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.

I was a girl once, but not anymore.

So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century's greatest living authors, Girl is an unforgettable story of one victim’s astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart
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