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GraceLand
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Christopher Abani |
This novel is set in Maroko, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and unfolds against a backdrop of lush reggae and highlife music, American movies and a harsh urban exis… |
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Feed Me The Sun Collected Long Poems
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Christopher Abani |
A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of expression; and a range of reference to contemporary life, history, art and literature. Including both me… |
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Song for Night
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Christopher Abani |
Part Inferno, part Paradise Lost, and part Sunjiata epic, Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier's lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a b… |
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Daphne's Lot
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Christopher Abani |
The coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman the power of her ties to family, husband, and her "adopted" country, Nigeria, as well as the illumination of her own soul and that of the narrators. |
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Song for Night
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Christopher Abani |
The story of a West African boy soldier's lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. |
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Kalakuta Republic
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Christopher Abani |
This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980's. |
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