The Girl Who Married a Lion
by Alexander McCall Smith
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1841955302
- ISBN 13
- 9781841955308
- Seller
-
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana. A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . . . When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light . . . Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape--these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yare Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016925
- Title
- The Girl Who Married a Lion
- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1841955302
- ISBN 13
- 9781841955308
- Publisher
- Canongate
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 2004
- Bookseller catalogs
- Detectives and Mysteries;
- X weight
- 6 oz
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