The First Wife: A Tale of PolygamyAfter 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 households for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husbands 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 through polygamist custom, the rival lovers

and heart-wrenching

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong

harsh verity and whimsical vignette

Central among Deutsch’s arguments for the necessity of bookstores is the incalculable value of browsing—since

in particular a disavowal of the doubt

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and how it functions within colonial capitalism

make our coffee

Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell

Taking as his example the Prophet’s love for the poor