Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5:: The Bride Price

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.

When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna''s ''bride price'' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become awoman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they are drawn together - until, finally, something has to break.

CEFR B2
Word count 22,620