Wake Me When I'm Gone

✍ Scribed by Atogun, Odafe

• Book ID: 110500937
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 841 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781782118428

✦ Synopsis

Everyone says that Ese is the most beautiful woman in the region, but a fool. A young widow, she lives in a village, where the crops grow tall and the people are ruled over by a Chief on a white horse. She married for love, but now her husband is dead, leaving her with nothing but a market stall and a young son to feed. When the Chief knocks on Ese's door demanding that she marry again, as the laws of the land dictate she must, Ese is a fool once more. There is a high price for breaking the law, and an even greater cost for breaking the heart of a Chief. Ese will face the wrath of gods and men in the fight to preserve her heart, to keep her son and to right centuries of wrongs. She will change the lives of many on the road to freedom, and she will face the greatest pain a mother ever can. Wake Me When I'm Gone is a story of curses broken and lives remade, of great tragedy and incredible rebirth. In this, his second novel, Nigerian writer Odafe Atogun unfolds a world rich with...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : Odafe Atogun
Original Source : New_Files_From_Vortex_B
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Atogun, Odafe
Title Length : 021
Title Parm D : Wake Me When I'm Gone
Title Parm G : Wake Me When I'm Gone
Num of Aut : 1
Title Parm B : (
Record ID : 7631
Uncomma Author : Odafe Atogun
Title Parm A : Wake Me When I'm Gone