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02966aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 482621B61BE411EA82BF083097128E48 003 SILO 005 20191211010111 008 190507t20192019sa 000 f eng d 020 $a 1485903734 020 $a 9781485903734 035 $a (OCoLC)1100124348 040 $a NX@ $b eng $e rda $c NX@ $d Y8N $d OCLCF $d INU $d EEM $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.4.O59 $b S66 2019 100 1 $a Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi, $d 1978- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018025934 245 14 $a The Son of the House / $c Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Cape Town : $b Penguin Random House South Africa, $c 2019. 300 $a 246 pages ; $c 24 cm 530 $a Also issued in electronic format. 520 $a "We must do something to pass the time, I thought. Two women in a room, hands and feet tied." Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for them. When Nwabulu's father dies, her stepmother sends her off to become a housemaid. For years, she suffers the abuse of employers, a love affair with an employer's son offering little comfort. Out of their union a son is born, but the young Nwabulu has to give him up, and is bound to suffer in her stepmother's home again until she can flee, establishing herself as a fashion designer, finally able to inhabit Julie's world. Julie: privileged, educated, and adored by her parents. She has the opportunity to become whomever she desires. But sometimes too much choice can be a dangerous thing, and in Julie's case it is. At thirty-four she is still unmarried and, for the first time, there is pressure: a burden that will only be lifted with the birth of a son. So determined is Julie for release that she goes as far as a polygamous marriage. While the two women wait for the ransom to be paid, fate will once again decide the course of their lives. -- Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Nigerian fiction (English) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091891 650 0 $a Abused women $v Fiction. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100492 650 0 $a Kidnapping $v Fiction. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106302 650 0 $a African fiction (English) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001724 650 7 $a Abused women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794870 650 7 $a African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799780 650 7 $a Kidnapping. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00987322 650 7 $a Nigerian fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037596 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021613.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=482621B61BE411EA82BF083097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search