The First Wife is alive with intrigue and happenings.It is this sense of strength, of resilience, of passion, and simultaneously of acceptance, of resignation that both excite and irritate that make Niketche such an enjoyable and provocative read." - Tony Simões da Silva, African Review of Books ".
the theme also allows her to lead the reader to discover a country and its customs, and to create some magnificent depictions of women." - Olivia Marsaud, "What we have, in Paulina, is the most authentic representation of the problems faced by women in Mozambican society." -Teresa Noronha, Jornal de Notícias, "In the style that characterises her writing, the novel pulls no punches, and the polemic it constructs is passionate and engaging. the narrator expreses the suffering of all women, divided between the desire to live and what appears to be an inner death (.) condemned to lose all her battles and to drift in the shadows." - Geneviève Vilner, Plural-Pluriel ".
"This novel by Chiziane, the first published Mozambiquan female novelist, is daring, biting in its critique." - Kirkus Reviews "In the style that characterises her writing, the novel pulls no punches, and the polemic it constructs is passionate and engaging.
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