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Under the Udala Trees

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Book
8
Narrator
4
Release Date
September 22, 2015
Duration
11 hours 30 minutes
Summary
Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.

As Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti’s political coming-of-age, Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees uses one woman’s lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. But this story offers a glimmer of hope—a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love.
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Profile Avatar Adegbola A. Dec 2018

Very great book

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jan 2024

loved it, so much mor original than most fiction

Under the Udala Trees

Under the Udala Trees

Author: Chinelo Okparanta
Read by: Robin Miles
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