Nottingham’s independent bookshop | 14a Long Row, Nottingham NG1 2DH | 0115 8373097
“Okparanta is major new voice not only because of her mesmerizing storytelling, but for her bravery and originality. She is a truth teller and soothsayer… Under the Udala Trees is breathtaking, rich with history and heart” – Tayari JonesOne day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma’s father is killed and her world is transformed forever.
Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma’s faith, test her resolve and flood her heart. In this masterful novel of faith, love and redemption, Okparanta takes us from Ijeoma’s childhood in war-torn Biafra, through the perils and pleasures of her blossoming sexuality, her wrong turns, and into the everyday sorrows and joys of marriage and motherhood.
As we journey with Ijeoma we are drawn to the question: what is the value of love and what is the cost?
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Five Leaves Bookshop
14a Long Row
Nottingham
NG1 2DH
0115 8373097