The impatient : a novel
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Author
Contributors
Ramadan, Emma, translator.
Published
New York, NY : HarperVia, 2022.
Edition
First edition.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Abused wives -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction
Cameroon -- Fiction.
Feminist fiction.
FICTION / Literary
Forced marriage -- Fiction.
Misogyny -- Fiction.
Moral traditions & moral arguments -- Fiction
Novels.
Patriarchy -- Fiction.
Polygamy -- Fiction.
Psychological abuse Fiction
Taboo -- Fiction.
Women -- Cameroon -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction
Cameroon -- Fiction.
Feminist fiction.
FICTION / Literary
Forced marriage -- Fiction.
Misogyny -- Fiction.
Moral traditions & moral arguments -- Fiction
Novels.
Patriarchy -- Fiction.
Polygamy -- Fiction.
Psychological abuse Fiction
Taboo -- Fiction.
Women -- Cameroon -- Fiction.
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Published
New York, NY : HarperVia, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages : 22 cm.
Street Date
2209
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published as Les Impatientes in France in 2020 by Éditions Emmanuelle Collas.
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and wed to a manipulative older man. Safira, her co-wife, juggles envy and empathy for this new bride with disappointment in the husband she desperately loves. Like her older sister, Ramla, Hindou is married off to a man she does not know or want, a distant cousin whose instability and violence terrifies her.
From an early age, these women were raised to submit to men, or risk shame and repudiation of themselves and their families. They are advised to have munyal—patience. They are told that their fates are the will of the All-Powerful, and that it is unthinkable—or rather, impossible—to defy tradition. They are reminded of the Fulani proverb which holds, “At the end of patience, there is the sky.”
Yet Ramla, Safira, and Hindou are tired of waiting for a happiness that may never come. Their lives are driven by impatience and clouded by the suffering rooted in forced marriage and physical abuse, but it is this oppressive culture that binds them together. In a society that demands female obedience, how will these three impatient women free themselves?
Djaïli Amadou Amal makes her literary debut in English with this remarkable novel that breaks taboos as it denounces the cultural mores of Africa's Sahel region. Inspired by the author’s own experiences and written with grace, strength, and veracity, The Impatient is a moving testimony to a shared pain and a call for change—an unflinching depiction of the psychic damage traditions can have on the women who must abide by them and a denunciation of violence against all women and the normalization of domestic abuse—not only in Cameroon but around the globe.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Amadou Amal, D., & Ramadan, E. (2022). The impatient: a novel (First edition.). HarperVia.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Amadou Amal, Djaïli and Emma, Ramadan. 2022. The Impatient: A Novel. HarperVia.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Amadou Amal, Djaïli and Emma, Ramadan. The Impatient: A Novel HarperVia, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Amadou Amal, Djaïli,, and Emma Ramadan. The Impatient: A Novel First edition., HarperVia, 2022.
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