Girl

Edna O’Brien

earliest edition we have, 2019 Macmillan Audio, 2019 audiobook

"I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child bli...

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Editions we hold

Girl paperback · 2020 · Picador · 240 pages · 9781250239914
Girl edition · 2020 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 240 pages · 9780571341184
La chica / Girl paperback · 2020 · Lumen · 232 pages · 9788426406354
Girl edition · 2019 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374721381
Girl audiobook · 2019 · Macmillan Audio · 9781250254467
Girl edition · 2019 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571341191
Girl hardcover · 2019 · Farrar, Straus And Giroux · 230 pages · 9780374162559
Girl edition · 2019 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 240 pages · 9780571341160
Girl edition · 2019 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 240 pages · 9780571341177

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