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008			190725s2020 xxk g 000 1 eng
020			_a9781529359275
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100	1		_aDaré, Abi _eaut _9180934
245	1	4	_aThe girl with the louding voice _c/ Abi Daré
260			_aLondon _b: Sceptre _c, 2020
300			_a314 p. _c; 20 cm
500			_aThe international bestseller
505			_a"Unforgettable" New York Times Book Review "A story of courage that will win over your heart" Stylist
520			_a"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing. But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can-in a whisper, in song, in broken English-until she is heard"--
651			_aAfrica _vNigeria _9180935