The Son of the House

Nwabulu has worked as a housemaid in Enugu since she was ten; she dreams of becoming a typist and is in love with a rich man's son. Julie is educated, privileged and lives alone, glad to accept gold jewellery from her admirer Eugene but unwilling to become his second wife. Years later, kidnapped and held together in a dank room, the two women tell each other their lives across four decades of Nigeria.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

283 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Nigeria

First published

2019 by Parrésia Publishers

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789785587494 (Parrésia Publishers, Nigeria)

9781485903734 (Penguin Random House South Africa, South Africa)

9781459747081 (Dundurn, Canada)

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