Lagos noir
Part I: Cops & robbers.What they did that night /Jude Dibia --Heaven's gate /Chika Unigwe --Showlogo /Nnedi Okorafor --Just ignore and try to endure /A. Igoni Barrett --Part II: In a family way.The swimming pool /Sara Ladipo Manyika --What are you going to do? /Adebola Rayo --For baby, for...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Brooklyn, New York
Akashic Books
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Akashic noir series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part I: Cops & robbers.What they did that night /Jude Dibia --Heaven's gate /Chika Unigwe --Showlogo /Nnedi Okorafor --Just ignore and try to endure /A. Igoni Barrett --Part II: In a family way.The swimming pool /Sara Ladipo Manyika --What are you going to do? /Adebola Rayo --For baby, for three /Onyinye Ihezukwu --Eden /Uche Okonkwo --Joy /Wale Lawal --Part III: Arrivals & departures.Choir boy /'Pemi Aguda --The walking stick /E.C. Osundu --Uncle Sam /Leye Adenle --Killer ape /Chris Abani. "Lagos has, like many coastal cities, a very checkered and noir past. It is the largest city in Nigeria and its former capital. It is also the largest megacity on the African continent, with a population approximating twenty-one million, and by itself is the fourth-largest economy in Africa...It is rumored that there are more canals in Lagos than in Venice. Except in Lagos they are often unintentional. Gutters that have become waterways and lagoons fenced in by stilt homes or full of logs for a timber industry most of us don't know exists. All of it skated by canoes as slick as any dragonfly. There are currently no moonlight or other gondola rides available... 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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| Beschreibung: | 217 pages map 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 1617755230 1-61775-523-0 9781617755231 978-1-61775-523-1 |