Lesley Nneka Arimah
Author
Language
English
Description
"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
Author
Publisher
SEM Libri
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"Quando Enebeli Okwara mandò sua figlia alla scoperta del mondo, non sapeva quello che il mondo poteva fare alle figlie."
È questo l'inizio di uno degli straordinari racconti contenuti in questo libro, storie che esplorano temi cari a tutti noi: l'importanza della famiglia, nel bene e nel male, e del luogo che chiamiamo casa; i legami tra genitori e figli, mariti e mogli, amanti e amici. E poi le differenze di classe e razza, i complicati rapporti...
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Caine Prize for African Writing, this collection showcases all twenty prize-winning short stories - each with its own unique take on modern African life. A jailer's love poems ghost-written by a prisoner... Love blossoming between two girls despite the horror of their community... Street kids stick-fighting or stealing guavas from the rich... A dystopian world where women must go naked until they marry......
