A Girl Named Disaster
by FARMER, Nancy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
- Seller
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 904811
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- FARMER, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction; African-American;
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