- Parent and child, Loss (Psychology), Married people, Fiction
"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves" --
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Ayòbámi Adébáyò
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Canongate Books, Hep Kitap, Vintage
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781782119609
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