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Love is Power or Something Like That
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781448129348
Umbreit-Nr.: 6457907
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 224 S., 1.38 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 04.07.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><b>Where sex is a currency, or a weapon.</b> <b></b> <b>Where power ends in corruption, or violence.</b> <b></b> <b>Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes.</b></p><p><b>Where love is power, or something like that.</b></p><p>In these nine blistering stories cavort jealous husbands, kissing cousins, teenage internet hustlers, democratic bus rides, home exorcisms and bowls of dubious catfish peppersoup: this is a searing, savage portrait of an utterly modern Nigeria.</p><p>Dark yet disarming, in prose that is tough, vigorous and immediately distinctive,<i>Love is Power, Or Something Like That</i>is a phenomenal short story collection from a palpably talented new writer.</p>
- Kurztext
- Dark yet disarming, Love is Power, Or Something Like That is a phenomenal short story collection.Where sex is a currency, or a weapon.Where power ends in corruption, or violence.Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes.Where love is power, or something like that.In these nine blistering stories cavort jealous husbands, kissing cousins, teenage internet hustlers, democratic bus rides, home exorcisms and bowls of dubious catfish peppersoup: this is a searing, savage portrait of an utterly modern Nigeria.
- Autorenportrait
- A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.
- Schlagzeile
- <b>A phenomenal short story collection of talent and range from a writer to watch</b>