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A GIRL NAMED DISASTER
de Farmer, Nancy
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Librería
-
Bacova, Virginia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Orchard Books, 1996 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a FINE Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. National Book Award Finalist and 1997 Newbery Honor Book, National Book Finalist no award medals on dust jacket. 309 pgs, boards. 11 year-old Nhamo flees from her village and family & sets out by boat for Zimbabwe when she is told she must marry a cruel man with three wives. A two-day trip becomes nearly a year long odyssey..
Sinopsis
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where a young girl named Nhamo (which means "disaster" in Shona) is told by a shaman that she will have to marry the brother of a man her father murdered, to rid her village of an epidemic of cholera. The brother of Gore Mtoko is said to be a middle-aged and evil man who is already married. Nhamo is instructed by her ill grandmother to run away and find her father in Zimbabwe.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Windy Hill Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 030885
- Título
- A GIRL NAMED DISASTER
- Autor
- Farmer, Nancy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Editorial
- NY: Orchard Books, 1996
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1996-09
- Catálogos del vendedor
- NEWBERY HONOR; AWARDS-MISC;
Términos de venta
Windy Hill Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Windy Hill Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
Bacova, Virginia
Sobre Windy Hill Books
Windy Hill Books specializes in out of print and collectible children's books in gift condition. Established in 1993 we have recently moved to beautiful Bath County Virginia. We are opened by appointment only.
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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