- Kidnapping victims, Fiction, Petroleum industry and trade, Corruption
Two journalists from Nigeria search for the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer and in the process uncover a corrupt world of oil, violence and power.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Helon Habila
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 232
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., W. W. Norton & Co., Dreamscape Media
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141046846
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About Helon Habila · 1967
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