The main character is a Motswana woman, the protagonist Mma Precious Ramotswe. The book takes place in Gaborone, Botswana. The books also give a voice to the natural beauty of Botswana and Africa, along with the tradition and culture as well as people that live there. Mma perseveres and does well with her intelligence and instinct as well as courage guiding her. But she comes across many obstacles and even danger in the course of her detective work. Mma wants to help others and overall make her home a better place. She is the first woman in the city to choose that profession, and the agency she opens is named in such a way that reflects her business, who is running it, and their dedication to quality.
Mma Precious Ramotswe us a woman who chooses to become a private detective.
The books have been adapted to a number of other mediums, including television movies, Internet and episodes broadcast for the radio.
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The series deals with a multitude of themes, including rural ways of life specific to Southern Africa, women in non traditional and traditional occupations, urbanity, modernity, social relations in traditional African society, contemporary and traditional African belief systems, AIDS and orphans of AIDS in Africa, clinical depression, emotional intelligence, moral philosophy, virtue, ethics, domestic violence, forgiveness, and infidelity. The books are about the adventures of characters and involve other issues and themes as well as contemporary aspects, combined with an overarching mystery archetype. Mma Precious Ramotswe is the story’s main character and detective. The agency in the series is founded by a Moswana woman in the capital of Botswana, Gaborone. The last book to be published in the series is the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, published in 2013. They deal with a variety of issues, from women being self sufficient to the struggles facing parts of Africa today as well as many traditional problems, such as personal relationships as well as human emotions and motivations such as jealousy, greed, anger, and revenge. The books are very popular and have been printed all over the world. It was first published in 1999 by Polygon Books. The first book in the series carries the same title as the series. 1 Ladies Detective Agency is a series by the Scottish author, Alexander McCall Smith. The writing was easy to understand and the plot was interesting, which kept me turning every page until the book was over.The No. Some of the mysteries are really quite funny, while others can be a bit scary!Īlthough I picked this book up from the adult section, I am sure that young readers will also enjoy this book and I recommend the entire series to you. Sometimes, while reading, I'd get so involved with the case Mma Ramostwe was solving that I wouldn't leave my chair until the case got over. I really enjoyed this book, I found it thoroughly entertaining. This time, her marriage will not be a mistake. Matekoni, proposes to her, and she says yes. Later on in the book, her good friend, Mr. Probably the funniest one is 'The Boyfriend' case. Ramotswe encounters lots of different cases in the book. It will be hard for me to continue with the storytelling because Ms. She named it The No.1 Ladies's Detective Agency. She married a trumpeter, Note Mokoti, but sadly, in the end, they were divorced when she got sick of getting beaten up by him.Īfter her father died, she used the money from their cattle farm to buy a small building and start her own little detective agency. She grew up to be a sensible, equal minded, smart and quite well educated woman. She didn't have a mother and was brought up by her father and her father's cousin. Anyway, back to the plot, enough with the blabbering! Precious (silly name, don't you think, for a grown up woman! I suppose it's a good nickname.) Ramotswe has had ups and downs in her life.
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