The Rape of Shavi

by Buchi Emecheta

Book Overview

"Emecheta's fluent prose...is steeped in the tradition of a difficult rural African life." The New York Times. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807611182
• ISBN13: 9780807611180
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Compelling reading

This is a quite compelling and captivating book that really makes you think.An un named African country in an idyllic setting is suddenly changed when Europeans escaping an impending nuclear war crash land. The twists and turns this story takes show how interaction between various peoples could either be positive or negative. A people's way of life was certainly changed.

very inspiring and makes you think about our issues

I really loved this book and I recommend it to all students taking an engligh course you learn about africa and the differences among their people in comparison to things fall apart and a grain of wheat

Story of a rape of a culture

A review of another of the author's books used the term "deceptively simple". I couldn't put it better about this story of a "civilized" culture happening upon a simpler, sheltered people. The story provides a perfect vehicle for the author to show not only how greed and prejudice poisons a people, but how all of us, in the "right" circumstances, can possess these qualities and let them overcome our better instincts.