Stephen Buoro

Broschiertes Buch

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781639735396
• ISBN-10: 1639735399
• Artikelnr.: 70371007

Rezensionen

Animated by a lively voice and a spiritual vision, Buoro's novel . . . unfolds a touching critique of the false promise of Western transcendence.