A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- USED Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140386351
- ISBN 13
- 9780140386356
- Seller
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Montclair, New Jersey, United States
3 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39664
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- Nancy Farmer
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- USED Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 0140386351
- ISBN 13
- 9780140386356
- Publisher
- Puffin
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- March 1998
- Pages
- 320
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