Zara
(The Teenager)
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As Afrah looks at Zara and sees that she is sad. Afrah can’t bring herself to think that the rags before her can pass for somebody’s wears. She looks at Zara’s face again, her countenance has worsen, although she is fighting very hard not to make it obvious. Afrah’s eyes momentarily surveys the three children before her, what they are wearing are not different from the ones on the floor. The pictures of Zara running to meet her and spreading the clothes upon the bags of the rice flash into Afrah’s mind and she asks forcefully: ‘Are they yours?’
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About the Book
Zara is a novel that depicts an intimate knowledge of coming of an age, love among teenagers and family life. After Zara, the protagonist who is from a very poor background has an encounter with Afrah, her life automatically takes a new turn. Her hopelessness, is turned into hope, her poverty is becoming a thing of the past and Zara is beginning to see a light at the end of tunnel until Mohammed, Afrah’’s boyfriend, returns from abroad. His presence triggers a lot of restlessness in Zara’s life, as she believes that the young man is shifting his affection from Afrah to her. Afrah will have known of it and believes that the only way to confront a world that has taken away her mother from her, given her father to another woman and delivered her boyfriend to a girl she picked from the slums is to commit suicide; an unexpected turn of event opens up a whole new life that hands Afrah and Zara all they think they’ve lost, making their fantasies their realities.
About the Author
Hafsah Ummi Abubakar is born in Nigeria. She attended Iman Comprehensive College and currently a student of Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun state. Ummi is one of the young writers of natural talent that have been tipped to take the world by storm in years to come. At fourteen, she has already announced her presence in the literary world with many short stories and Zara is her first novel. she writes in a vividly charming way that sustains readership. Ummi is a serial award winner.