Chika Unigwe

Better Never Than Late

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. A harrowing encounter on a train haunts Añuli. A mother abandons her child in search of personal freedom. A wife joins her husband, only to be met with news that threatens their relationship.

This richly imagined collage of interconnected stories follows Prosperous and Agu, and the motley community of Nigerian ex-pats who gather at their apartment each week. Their reality is one of dashed hopes, twisted love and the pain of homesickness, even as they fight to make their way in this new world.

Better Never Than Late is a layered and affecting portrayal of the everyday absurdities and adversities of migrant life.

Produktdetails

• Cassava Shorts
• Verlag: Cassava Republic Press / Durnell Central
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 197g
• ISBN-13: 9781911115540
• ISBN-10: 1911115545
• Artikelnr.: 56517452

Autorenporträt

Chika Unigwe is the author of four novels, including the acclaimed On Black Sisters' Street (Jonathan Cape, 2009), and winner of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (2012). In 2014 she was included in the Hay Festival Africa39 list of most promising African writers under the age of 40. In 2016, Unigwe was appointed as the Bonderman Professor for Creative Writing at Brown University in Rhode Island, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.

Rezensionen

"These stories are so vital, funny and finely made, they make it a little easier to live in a world where love is so important, and yet so unpredictable." - John Freeman, writer and editor of Freeman's