Girl Who Married a Lion and other Tales from Africa

From the author of the phenomenally successful, New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mystery series comes this spellbinding collection of African folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana. When a woman becomes the target of ridicule from her husband's new wife, the jilted woman befriends a talking guinea fowl, who helps her get revenge. In another tale, a young woman who lives in a cave falls victim to the wicked scheming of a dangerous cannibal. And when a womansuspects her husband is actually a lion, she asks her brother for help in driving the cunning beast away fromher and her two sons-who may also be lions!The more than 30 stories in this delightful anthology have a uniquely African flair, but still manage to tap into ideas-love, jealousy, ambition- that are universally human. And since folktales are part of an oral history, hearing them spoken aloud by a cast of wonderfully talented, completely authentic narrators is pure magic.