A girl named Disaster

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309 pages

English language

Published March 17, 1998 by Puffin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-038635-6
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OCLC Number:
37211398

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While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

5 editions

Subjects

  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Supernatural
  • Survival
  • Shona (African people)

Places

  • Mozambique
  • Zimbabwe
  • Africa