Chigozie Obioma

An Orchestra of Minorities

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Produktbeschreibung

A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by a Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BACK BAY BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780316412407
• ISBN-10: 0316412406
• Artikelnr.: 55305849

Autorenporträt

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His debut novel, The Fishermen , is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Prizes); and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize 2015, as well as for several other prizes in the US and UK. Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages and adapted into stage. He is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, was a finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize.

Rezensionen

Brilliantly intertwining the human and spirit worlds. A major new African writer Salman Rushdie (Amazon Book Review)