Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature It is the mid-1980s in Lagos, Nigeria, and the government"s War against Indiscipline is in full operation. Amid poverty and tight rules and regulations, women especially must sacrifice dignity and safety in order to find work and peace. Tolani Ajao is a secretary working at Federal Community Bank. A succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani"s roommate
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"In this unique novel, outstanding new literary talent Sefi Atta takes great strides in style and form, to bring wit and passion to the heartbreaking story of Tolani and Rose, two young women struggling, not always successfully, to make an honest living in contemporary Nigeria... Atta tells in an eminently readable voice the irreconcilable nature of the two friends' fates."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions
"No contemporary Nigerian writer is better than Sefi Atta at evoking the smells, sounds and the sheer madness of this sprawling cosmopolitan city of Lagos."ùToni Kan Onwordi, author of Nights of the Creaking Bed
"Tender, fierce, vivid and memorableùa bold, distinctive novel from a writer who doesn't compromise her integrity."-Leila Aboulela, author of Minaret
"Sefi Atta has woven a quietly intricate powerful tale that pulls from problems of gender, class, and Lagosian life. It's a novel whose many colorful characters, compelling story, distinct place and turbulent time will stay with you long after you've read the last world."-Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, author of Zahrah the Windseeker
Sefi Atta's first novel, Everything Good Will come, won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Her short-story collection News from Home received the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was educated there, in England and the United States, and is a graduate of the creative writing program at Antioch University, Los Angeles.
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