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The Girl Who Married a Lion: Adult Edition

The Girl Who Married a Lion: Adult Edition
By Alexander McCall Smith

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First published in 1989 as Children of Wax, The Girl Who Married a Lion includes all but one of the original stories and features six new folk tales, an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith and a letter from the one and only Mma Ramotswe. From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in the landscape, this collection demonstrates the wealth and variety of African folk tales and the particular magic of Africa's spiritual roots: a sense of unity with the environment. Simple, surprising, cruel and humorous, these beautifully rendered tales remain as fresh and vital as in the original African idiom.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #277522 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-07-07
  • Original language: German, English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

Customer Reviews

very nice book to read5
I love this book which is folk tales from africa. Very light read. I enjoy it so much and i hope you like it too.

Worth it5
I purchased this at a cheap bookshop for 99p and it was the best 99p i've ever spent.

My husband and I listened to it on a drive back to Falkirk from Nottingham in a white van with furniture rattling in the back.

These stories took me away from all that. Both ideal for children and adults, the morals are wise and true, we thoroughly enjoyed it and made the journey pass quickly and took me on my own journey to Africa.

Mind opening5
A beautiful book with storylines on Africa, The Girl Who Married a Lion is highly emotional and deep. With a clear depiction of African attachment to totems, the book provides an insight of Southern African cultures and traditions, of the close link of the people and the animals they became attached to, as well as their closeness to the environment. The people's perception and acceptance of life, death, love, happiness and sorrow are clearly depicted.
There is a lot to learn, enjoy and develop from this book. It easily brings to mind the works of Janvier Tisi's THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES. In the story I AM HATED, the strength of totems in the people's lives goes to confirm a lot in The Girl who married a Giraffe.