An Unusual Grief - Omotoso, Yewande
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LONGLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2023AND THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2023
How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead?
This is the question that haunts Mojisola as she grapples withthe sudden loss of her daughter, Yinka, and the unresolved fractures in theirrelationship. Mojisola is forced to confront the dysfunctions of her life thathave led her to this point, evading her errant husband and mourning theirestranged daughter alone.
Mojisola's grief takes her from Cape Town to Johannesburg whereshe holes up in Yinka's apartment, unearthing the life that she had…mehr

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LONGLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2023AND THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2023

How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead?

This is the question that haunts Mojisola as she grapples withthe sudden loss of her daughter, Yinka, and the unresolved fractures in theirrelationship. Mojisola is forced to confront the dysfunctions of her life thathave led her to this point, evading her errant husband and mourning theirestranged daughter alone.

Mojisola's grief takes her from Cape Town to Johannesburg whereshe holes up in Yinka's apartment, unearthing the life that she had built forherself there. Walking a mile in Yinka's shoes, Mojisola slips into aclandestine underworld, where she learns to break free from the bondage of the labels,wife and mother.

In this new world of feline companionship, reignited talentsand unlikely friendships, including with Yinka's acerbic landlady Zelda,Mojisola's understanding of life, and her place within it, is built anew.

A bold and unflinching tale of one woman's unconventionalapproach to life and loss.

Autorenporträt
Yewande Omotoso trained as an architect. Her debut novel Bom Boy was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize in South Africa. Yewande was shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature. Her second novel, Woman Next Door, was longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2018, it was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award and a finalist in the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction. It has been translated into Catalan, Dutch, French, German. Italian and Korean. She currently lives in Johannesburg.
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"I am in awe of Omotoso's talent[...]she cements her position as one of the leading African novelists of our time[...] in An Unusual Grief, Omotoso surprises, shocks and breaks your heart in equal measure. I am lucky to have readher books." - JENNIFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI, author of Kintu, Manchester Happened and The First Woman