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Großmütter
“Grandmothers” (title translated by AI)
Melara Mvogdobo (born 1972)
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This novel is about two grandmothers, one from a poor Swiss farming family, the other from a relatively well-off family in Cameroon, both born around 1940 and both left unnamed. It tells of their childhoods, their hopes and disappointments. As young women they have dreams. They marry, and are humiliated and degraded, and they feel the narrow limits that patriarchy sets them; the Cameroonian woman gets the vote before the Swiss one. In a surprising parallel of two lives, the novel shows what connects women across cultures and continents, and the rage that builds up in them.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 127 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland, Cameroon
- First published
- 2025 by Transit Buchverlag
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9783887474164 (original)