{"product_id":"shipikisha-club-book-mubanga-kalimamukwento-9781913175900","title":"The Shipikisha Club","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman on trial. A marriage built on silence. A culture that demands endurance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSali, a working mother of three, is on trial for the murder of her husband, Kasunga. Accused of shooting him after a fight in their bedroom, she pleads not guilty and must rely on an overworked legal aid lawyer as a courtroom hungry for judgement looks on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourteen years earlier, Sali's life was shaped by a different kind of violence. The pressure to conform, to endure, to shipikisha. When an affair with a wealthy, married man ends in sudden death, she enters a loveless marriage to escape the shame of unwed motherhood. What follows is a life marked by infidelity, financial strain, postnatal depression and quiet suffering, until endurance finally gives way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold through a braided narrative moving between past and present, The Shipikisha Club is a powerful literary novel about marriage, motherhood and the devastating cost of silence in contemporary Zambia.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53162500522257,"sku":"NGR9781913175900","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781913175900.jpg?v=1776419651","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/shipikisha-club-book-mubanga-kalimamukwento-9781913175900","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}