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Carmen in Nigerian Pidgin: Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen, translated into Nigerian Pidgin from the original.

Original author: Prosper Mérimée. Original title: Carmen. Translated into Nigerian Pidgin from the English text (the work was first written in French).

For di autumn of 1830, one French scholar wey dey travel for Andalusia meet one dangerous stranger for di mountain.

Small time after, for Cordoba, e meet one gipsy girl. Di stranger na Don Jose, and di girl na Carmen.

Some months later, Jose dey prison dey wait make dem hang am, and e tell di scholar how e lose everything bicos of Carmen.

Di short novel wey Bizet use make im opera, complete for Naija Pidgin.

Dis book carry all di four chapter complete, plus di fourth chapter wey di man wey dey tell di story write about di gipsy pipo of Spain and dia language.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #2465 (Lady Mary Loyd’s English translation). Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 66 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover painting: Édouard Manet, Portrait of Émilie Ambre as Carmen, 1880 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).