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product_id: 62962641
title: "The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy"
price: "VT6732"
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reviews_count: 9
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# The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy

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- **What is this?** The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy
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## Description

After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #862,688 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,781 in Women's Friendship Fiction #8,846 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #25,847 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 81 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

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