The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi The sequel to All Quiet

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front

But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him

The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing

a bank manager

Complicating these feelings of abandonment

The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi The sequel to All QuietIn her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattettaher grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a mysterious second self, a headstrong and confusing