Sylvia Ofili

German Calendar, No December (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Weyhe, Birgit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Olivia Evezi's childhood is a happy one; her days are spent listening to highlife records and poring over the colourful postcards from Germany. When she leaves her hometown of Warri behind to live out her Enid Blyton fantasies in a boarding school in Lagos, instead of adventure and lacrosse, she is met with punishments, endless chores and hazing rituals.

Olivia's restlessness takes her to Germany, her mothe's homeland, where she is thrown into a hidden world of workers and migrants; a world of constant vigilance, where a piece of paper can hold the key to survival. Olivia finds that she is destined to always be an outsider -- too white for Nigeria and too black for Germany -- and so must learn to define herself and her place in the world beyond the labels that have been given to her: exotic, foreign, oyinbo.

German Calendar No December is a candid and reflective coming of age tale about learning to navigate the world, with the help of good music, good books, good friends, and a touch of courage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cassava Republic
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911115625
• Artikelnr.: 54348031

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Ofili is a writer and teacher currently based in Stockholm. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria of Nigerian/Hungarian parents and her writing has appeared in the Guardian Nigeria and Brittle Paper. She is also known as 'The Waffarian' and has been writing on her blog for over ten years. German Calendar No December is her first full-length graphic novel.

Rezensionen

As the oldest daughter of a German mother and Nigerian father in a small Nigerian town where everybody knows everybody, Olivia has valued books as windows to a life beyond. While anticipating boarding school in big-city Lagos, Olivia dreams of "all kinds of adventures," Enid Blyton-style, filled with games, picnics, perhaps even a mystery to solve. What she endures instead is senseless abuse at the whim of upperclasswomen, until one scorching afternoon, she refuses further punishment, inspiring her fellow students to revolt. After graduation, Olivia "can't wait to get the hell out," choosing university in her mother's birthplace of Hamburg. While she was oyinbo (white European) in Nigeria, she's suddenly Black in Germany and the object of intrusive scrutiny. A part-time bakery job provides a welcoming haven, more so when the diverse staff starts sharing secrets. Artist Weyhe presents Nigerian Hungarian Ofili's debut in a palette of greens and rusty browns, as if ironically invoking earthy tones to underscore Olivia's own unsettled journeys. As Olivia readies herself to "move on" and find her own cause, the vast world awaits.