Sin is a Puppy by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Sin is a Puppy by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Beginning in the late 1980s, northern Nigeria saw a boom in popular fiction written in the Hausa language. Known as littattafan soyayya (love literature), the books are often inspired by Hindi films which have been hugely popular among Hausa speakers for decades and are primarily written by women. They have sparked a craze among young adult readers as well as a backlash from government censors and book-burning conservatives.Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home is an Islamic soap opera complete with polygamous households, virtuous women, scheming harlots, and black magic. It's the first full-length novel ever translated from Hausa to English. And it's quite unlike anything you've ever read before.

Beginning in the late 1980s, northern Nigeria saw a boom in popular fiction written in the Hausa language. Known as littattafan soyayya (love literature), the books are often inspired by Hindi films which have been hugely popular among Hausa speakers for decades and are primarily written by women. They have sparked a craze among young adult readers as well as a backlash from government censors and book-burning conservatives.Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home is an Islamic soap opera complete with polygamous households, virtuous women, scheming harlots, and black magic. It's the first full-length novel ever translated from Hausa to English. And it's quite unlike anything you've ever read before.

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ISBN 13	9789381626849
ISBN 10	9381626847
Title	Sin is a Puppy
Author	Balaraba Ramat Yakubu
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Westland Publications Limited
Year published	2012-12-01
Number of pages	130
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