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Bewilderment Of The Gods
Paperback
Publisher: Dennis Chikadibia Ejimudo
Published: Aug 29 2025
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a village where tradition speaks louder than love, one man's return ignites a silent war between duty and desire.
Ikemba, a doctor who left Nigeria for America, comes home not just to heal the sick, but to reclaim the life he once knew. When he meets Uloma-a woman of quiet strength and hidden sorrow-their connection is immediate, deep, and undeniable. In her, he sees not only love, but peace. A future.
But in the heart of Umuebube, peace is fragile. Love is measured not by the heart, but by blood. And Uloma carries a secret older than memory: she is Osu-a descendant of those set apart, forbidden to marry freely, her worth defined by a caste system woven into the fabric of tradition.
As their bond grows, whispers rise like smoke through the compound-quiet, invisible, but everywhere. Elders murmur of purity. Fathers speak of consequences. And Ikemba's own father, Nze Udokamma, stands as both guardian and gatekeeper, torn between ancestral duty and a son's fragile hope.
When the day of the marriage rites-arrives, the village gathers in anticipation.
But Ikemba does not come.
Left standing alone, Uloma must face a truth more painful than rejection: she was not abandoned by choice, but by fear. And the deepest betrayal is not in the act-but in the silence that follows.
Inspired by generations of untold stories, Bewilderment of the Gods is not just a novel about forbidden love. It is a searing meditation on the weight of tradition, the cost of silence, and the quiet courage of those who dare to ask: Why do we still do this?
With lyrical prose and the rhythm of Igbo oral tradition, Dennis Chikadibia Ejimudo has written a story that does not flinch. A story that mourns. A story that remembers.
And ultimately-a story that calls for change.
Some wounds do not heal in one lifetime.
They wait.
They whisper.
And one day, someone writes them down.
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