{"product_id":"so-long-a-letter","title":"So Long a Letter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMariama Bâ’s pioneering debut,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSo Long a Letter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to take sole responsibility for the long mourning process of her late husband. A husband she has not seen in over four years – not after he married his second wife. In a letter to her friend, Ramatoulaye recalls both of their experiences as students impatient to change the world, as wives suffering in the private sphere of marriage, and as mothers witnessing the dangers of Westernisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUndaunted by topics of polygamy, social castes, and religion, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSo Long a Letter\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a novel rich with poetic prose and profound wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e’Mariama Bâ is in a class of her own, conveying with real power and poetry a subtle, changing world of female experience.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42573155958850,"sku":null,"price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/files\/81xZ83TJriL._SL1500.jpg?v=1762242602","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/so-long-a-letter","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}