by Buchi Emecheta · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194792189
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«The Bride Price» is Buchi Emecheta's novel in Oxford Bookworms Library 5, in paperback (104 pages, in English), published by Oxford University Press.
After her father's death, Aku-nna and her brother are taken in by an uncle who expects to collect the 'bride price' when she marries. In her new home, a man treats her kindly and a love is born that everyone considers inappropriate; the more they try to separate them, the more united they feel, until pressure threatens to break their relationship.
Part of Oxford Bookworms Library, level 5 (1800 vocabulary words); text adapted by Rosemary Border, with 22,620 words.
For English learners who want to expand vocabulary and consolidate reading comprehension with a narrative story.
Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other novels include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948".
