A very long message

While the woman, over the years, draws strength to hold on more, despite her companion's aging, the man narrows his sphere of tenderness more and more. His selfish eye looks over his wife's shoulder. He compares what he has gained with what he no longer has, and what he has with what he can obtain. I have heard many hardships to the point that I did not understand my own hardship. Your situation, Isaato, is the case of many other women, despised or rejected or replaced, whom they abandoned like worn or old clothes. The novel "A Very Long Letter" is considered a great work for what it says about the status of African women. At the heart of this novel, a message is directed by Ramatulai to her dearest friends, during the traditional isolation that follows her widowhood. The Senegalese writer Mariama Ba, born in the capital Dakar to a wealthy Muslim family, is the first African novelist to describe in such a light the status granted to women in her society. Number of pages: 136