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- ISBN 9781035900732
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From award-winning author, Ifeoma Okoye, Behind the Clouds is the emotional story a woman trying to build a family under the societal pressures of 1970s Nigeria.
Ije has visited every reputable faith healer, doctor, and herbalist she can find yet her desire to become a mother is proving impossible to fulfill.
While her mother-in-law believes the blame should rest solely on the wife, her husband remains unfailingly supportive. That is until one day Ife arrives home to find a pregnant woman sitting in her house. She says she is the mother of her husband's child and she's here to take her rightful place in Ife's home...
Raw and immensely thought-provoking, Okoye boldly captures the painful experience of being labelled a 'barren' woman in 1970s Nigeria.
Ifeoma Okoye was born in Anambra State, Nigeria. She graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1977 and went on to study at Aston University in England where she obtained a postgraduate degree in English. She taught as a Senior lecturer of English at Nnamdi Azikiwe University until 2000.
As well as being a prominent children's and short stories writer, her adult fiction has received numerous awards such as the prestigious Nigerian National Council of Art and Culture award in 1983 with her novel Behind the Clouds. She also won the 1985 Ife National Book Fair award and was the African Regional winner for the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 1999.
She currently lives in Enugu, Nigeria. You can follow Okoye on Twitter at @ifeokoye.
