The Concubine

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Summary: The novel "Concubine" is awesome
Review: I have read this book more than five times and I will be glad if someone can make a movie outta the book. I was inspired by the well descibed drop dead gorgeous protagonist, Ihuoma, I had a girl friend who resembled her in all aspects. Luckily I had to sit for the same book in my Literature final in K.C.S.E. I blew up the test with flying colours. Too bad I had to live the country and I got to USA just to search for the book which I had to pay a 100 times more than I paid for it on my first time. I have saved it as a souvenier and a collection of my literature work. Any one who knows how I can get in Touch with Elechi Amadi,Wole sonyinka, Ngugi wa Thiongo and any other African writer can drop me a slug mail. I'm trying to work on my first novel and I hope it sells big-tyme.

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Summary: The concubine by Elechi Adami
Review: I must first of all admit that when I saw the book,I was not interested because of the title"concunbine"; But since It was a book that I had to read for literature in English, so I had no chioce but to read it. When I began reading I love it so much that I kept re-reading.I must have probably read the book 5-20 times and I'm currently working on a research paper for the University that I attend because it was not only interesting but it actually inspired me to want to explore the book through research and to let my American course mates including my teacher understand and have some sort of knowledge of what the book symbolizes and the African tradition that is potrayed in the book.It is an excellent novel for those Nigerian Children that were born and raised in another culture to read and understand the Nigerian culture and tradition. I did,and I'm grateful to my Parents for introducing me into my culture because that how I stumbled on the novel itself.The novel is not only for Nigerian but any one that love stories,novel, traditon, love and most importantly loving or having a passion to read.

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Summary: Elechi Amadi's "The Concubine": A rare Classic
Review: People often ask me: "Can any good come out of Africa?". My
answer is yes: Elechi Amadi's "The Concubine" is one of the best things that ever came out of Africa. In high school in Nigeria, "The Concubine" was one of those few literature textbooks students from all works of life (myself included), cherished.

Ihuoma (who was the unwitting cause of all the tragedy in the book,) did not understand why all who loved and tried to marry her, died suddenly and mysteriously, until it was revealed that she was simply subject to her own fate (just like Oedipus in Sophocles' "Oedipus the king", and Achilles and Agamemnon in Homer's "the Odyssey").

Elechi Amadi captivates with his writing talent. Just when you think you know what is coming, he outwits you with a manificently conceived twist to the story that makes you want to keep reading ....and reading...

It is my utmost ambition (God willing), to bring this magnificent story to the big screen. "The Concubine" is a classic, belonging in the group of great stories like "Oedipus the king", "The Iliad", "The Odyssey", James Hardley Chase's
"You're dead without money", G.P.Sippy's "Sholay" (a Bollywood-Indian movie) and Akira Kurosawa's "Kagemusha" ( a Japanese movie).

Buy this book my friend, add it to your collections, read it and tell your friends, children and grand children this magnificent story.