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      No Sweetness Here and Other Stories

      by Ama Ata Aidoo
      Published
      Dec 1995
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      170
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      From the author of Changes: these stories "of post-independence Ghana in the late 1960s are written beautifully and wisely and with great subtlety" (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi).

       


      In this short story collection, the award-winning poet and author of Changes and Our Sister Killjoy explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty, humor, and insight. A house servant wonders what independence means in a country where indoor plumbing is still reserved for bosses. A brother tracks down his runaway sister only to find she has become a prostitute. In the title story, a bitter divorce turns tragic when the couple's only child dies of a snake bite.


       


      In these and other stories, tradition wrestles with new urban influences as Africans try to sort out their identity in a changing culture, and "even at her gravest, Miss Aidoo writes with a sunny charm" (The New York Times).

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      Aug 1988 Kaplan Publishing ISBN13 9780582003934 ISBN10 0582003938
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      Dec 1995 Feminist Press ISBN13 9781558611191 ISBN10 1558611193
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      Dec 1995 Feminist Press ISBN13 9781558611184 ISBN10 1558611185
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      Apr 2015 Feminist Press at CUNY, The ISBN13 9781558619166 ISBN10 155861916X
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