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Beschreibung

Welcome to Lagos ... as you've never seen it before.

A woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter's face.
A mysterious virus wipes out all the boys on one street.
A young architect turns up to measure a house, only to find that her drawings make no sense, and the house seems to resist her ...

'The eerie and the everyday are perfectly aligned in these twelve stories set in the hustle and bustle of Lagos in Nigeria ... excellently uncanny' Daily Mail

'Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos ... thrilling and disturbing' Financial Times

'Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, these stories herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction' New York Times Book Review

'Both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way ... you'll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us

Welcome to Lagos ... as you've never seen it before.

A woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter's face.
A mysterious virus wipes out all the boys on one street.
A young architect turns up to measure a house, only to find that her drawings make no sense, and the house seems to resist her ...

'The eerie and the everyday are perfectly aligned in these twelve stories set in the hustle and bustle of Lagos in Nigeria ... excellently uncanny' Daily Mail

'Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos ... thrilling and disturbing' Financial Times

'Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, these stories herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction' New York Times Book Review

'Both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way ... you'll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us

Über den Autor
'Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the winner of the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers' Award and a graduate of the Zell MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in American Short Fiction, Granta, One Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope and The Best Short Stories 2022 and 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners, edited by Valeria Luiselli (2022) and Lauren Groff (2023), among other publications.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 208 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349018249
ISBN-10: 0349018243
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Aguda, 'Pemi
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 199 x 129 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: 'Pemi Aguda
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,193 kg
Artikel-ID: 133347036

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