Nudibranch: the collection from MBE for Literature recipient Irenosen Okojie - Softcover

Okojie, Irenosen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349700915 ISBN 13: 9780349700915

Verlag: Little, Brown, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

'Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating originality and intense drama' Bernardine Evaristo

'Dazzling . . . A feast for the senses' Diana Evans

Winner of the AKO Cain Prize

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In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . .

A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs.

A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator.

Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning.

And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time.

Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal.

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PRAISE FOR IRENOSEN OKOJIE

'One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge in many a year'

ALEX WHEATLE MBE

'Okojie has a sharp eye for the twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches from elegance to brutality in a single line'

STELLA DUFFY

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular

and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review. She co-presented the BBC's Turn Up for The Books podcast, alongside

Simon Savidge and Bastille frontman Dan Smith. Her work has been optioned for the screen. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the

Gordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an

MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival.

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'Nudibranch, is dazzling, a feast for the senses, as well as a lesson in both creative and existential bravery' Diana Evans, Observer

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality.

A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs.

A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator.

Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning.

And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time.

Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal.

'Okojie has a sharp eye for the twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches from elegance to brutality in a single line'
Stella Duffy

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0349700915
• ISBN 13: 9780349700915
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1
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