# This Side Jordan

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- Book: [This Side Jordan](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-lawrence/this-side-jordan) ([This Side Jordan.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-lawrence/this-side-jordan.md))
- Authors: [Margaret Laurence](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-lawrence), [George Woodcock](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-woodcock)
- Publisher: new_canadian_library
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-5199-299-0
- Published: 2009-08-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence’s first novel, This Side Jordan, recreates that colour-drenched world: a place...