Nudibranch
Author(s): Irenosen Okojie
GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019
AFRICAN BOOK ADDICT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS 2019
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In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . .
A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs.
A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator.
Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning.
And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time.
Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal.
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PRAISE FOR IRENOSEN OKOJIE
'One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge in many a year'
ALEX WHEATLE MBE
'Irenosen Okojie delves into the painful, the unsayable, the unknowable'
BERNARDINE EVARISTO, GUARDIAN
'An original and highly unpredictable imagination . . . Prepare to be startled'
RUPERT THOMSON
'Okojie has a sharp eye for the twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches from elegance to brutality in a single line'
STELLA DUFFY
'Unique and imaginative'
DIANA EVANS, bestselling author of Ordinary People
General Information
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 0.3
- : 01 November 2019
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Irenosen Okojie
- : Paperback
- : 272