- New York Times reviewed, English literature, Nigerian Authors, Biography
>In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and character-led.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Akwaeke Emezi
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Penguin Publishing Group, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571366163
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