Senegal

So Long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ

Author Mariama Bâ took a critical view of society and made it her mission to eradicate inequalities.This important and influential book is the story is of a woman whose husband abandons her and their twelve children, told in the form of her letters to a friend. It is a philosophical look at tradition and how it does and does not continue down the generations.

Translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas
Heinemann, 1981
First published in 1980
ISBN 9780435913526