Lagos Noir (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Abani, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria's best loved writers. From the introduction by Chris Abani: The thirteen stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of "noir" fiction, but each one of them fully captures the essence of noir, the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city's streets, alleys, and waterways...Together, these stories create an unchartered path through the center of Lagos and out to its peripheries, revealing so much more truth at the heart of this tremendous city than any guidebook, TV show, film, or book you are likely to find.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cassava Republic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911115748
• Artikelnr.: 61921512

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. He is the coeditor of New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano) and editor of Lagos Noir.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

PARTI: COPS & ROBBERS

What They Did ThatNight

Heaven's Gate

Showlogo

Just Ignore andTry to Endure

PARTII: IN A FAMILY WAY

The Swimming Pool

What Are You GoingTo Do?

For Baby, ForThree

Eden

Joy

PARTIII: ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES

Choir Boy

The Walking Stick

Uncle Sam InternationalAirport

Killer Ape

About theContributors

Rezensionen

The African megalopolis of Lagos,Nigeria, makes a perfect setting for mystery stories with a noir bent. Urbananonymity and alienation are key to noir, as are femmes fatales, con men, heistcrews, crooked cops, and naïve newcomers from the sticks. The sights,sounds, and equatorial heat of the big city heighten the tensions inherent intales of robbery, murder, and other desperate acts. Crime is no respecter ofclass either, with stories set in the wealthiest, gated enclaves and thepoorest of the poor shantytowns. The smell of local street food cooking overfires on every street corner is omnipresent...
With its breadth ofcontributors, this latest volume in the publisher's city noir series will satisfyboth the fan of contemporary African fiction and the newcomer interested indiscovering some new voices. - Dan Forrest, Western Kentucky Univ. Libs.,Bowling Green