Stephen Buoro

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 638 Min.
Sprecher: Owusu, Jude

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro, read by Jude Owusu. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist Shortlisted for the 2024 Betty Trask Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Named a Best of the Year Book by NPR Crackling with energy and intelligence, this debut is the "smart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking" (Kamila Shamsie) story of an exceptional teenager coming of age in the shadow of colonialism and communal violence in Nigeria. Andrew Aziza is an unusually smart fifteen-year-old in Kontagora, Nigeria. He lives with his fiercely protective mother, Gloria, and fantasizes obsessively about white girls—especially blondes. When he's not in church, at school, or hanging about town with his droogs wishing to become one of "Africa's first superheroes," he's contemplating the larger questions with his teacher Zahrah and his equally brilliant friend Fatima, a Hausa-Fulani girl who has feelings for him. Together they discuss mathematical theorems, Black power, and what Andy has deemed the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed Andy Africa soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on: Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man there claims, despite his mother's denials, to be Andy's father, and an anti-Christian mob has gathered, headed for the church. In the ensuing havoc and its aftermath, Andy is forced to reckon with his identity and desires and determine how to live on the so-called Cursed Continent. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa announces a dazzlingly unique literary voice. Crackling with energy, this tragicomic novel provides a stunning lens into contemporary African life, the complicity of the West, and the impossible challenges of growing up in a turbulent world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781639731343
• Artikelnr.: 70156751

Autorenporträt

Stephen Buoro was born in Nigeria in 1993. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia where he received the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. His debut novel, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, was a finalist for the L.A. Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Nero Book Awards: Debut Fiction Prize, and the Betty Trask Prize. He lives in Norwich, UK.

Rezensionen

Tragically ebullient . . . The ending is one of the most staggering since Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust.