Lagos Noir

Herausgeber: Abani, Chris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781617755231
• ISBN-10: 1617755230
• Artikelnr.: 48814924

Autorenporträt

Chris Abani, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: COPS & ROBBERS
What They Did That Night by Jude Dibia (Lagos Island)
Heaven's Gate by Chika Unigwe (Ojo)
Showlogo by Nnedi Okorafor (Ajegunle)
Just Ignore and Try to Endure by A. Igoni Barrett (Egbeda)
PART II: IN A FAMILY WAY
The Swimming Pool by Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Victoria Island)
What Are You Going To Do? by Adebola Rayo (Onikan)
For Baby, For Three by Onyinye Ihezukwu (Yaba)
Eden by Uche Okonkwo (Obalende)
Joy by Wale Lawal (Surulere)
PART III: ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES
Choir Boy by 'Pemi Aguda (Berger)
The Walking Stick by E.C. Osondu (Agege)
Uncle Sam by Leye Adenle (Murtala Muhammed International Airport)
Killer Ape by Chris Abani (Ikoyi)