The Girl Who Married a Lion

The Girl Who Married a Lion
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Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780375423444
ISBN-13 : 0375423443
Rating : 4/5 (443 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Girl Who Married a Lion by : Alexander McCall Smith

Download or read book The Girl Who Married a Lion written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana. A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . . . When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light . . . Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape—these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.


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