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Intimate Strangers

By B. Nyamnjoh

Book information

Publisher
Langaa RPCIG
Year
2010
ISBN
9789956616183, 9789956616060
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9179107 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
336\336
Time added
2023-08-08 22:42:37
FIC019000

Description

Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fianc� refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of society, through her own ingenuity and an encounter with researcher Dr Winter-Bottom Nanny, she is able to earn some money. Will she remain at the margins or graduate into DUST - Diamond University of Science and Technology? Immaculate learns how maids struggle to make ends meet and madams wrestle to keep them in their employ. Resolved to make her disappointments blessings, she perseveres until she can take no more.

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