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Author : 'Pemi Aguda
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-05-09
Ghostroots written by 'Pemi Aguda and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-09 with Fiction categories.
The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories from a prize-winning young Nigerian writer. 'You'll find it hard to tear yourself away' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us 'Each story is a tiny wonder' Kirsty Logan, author of The Unfamiliar 'Marvellously unsettling' Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love 'An astonishing talent' Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds The Lagos of these twelve sinister and beguiling stories is multi-faceted, peopled by Pentecostal Christians and exasperated atheists; by tight-knit extended families and struggling single fathers. Here are characters cursed by guilt, bound by the ties of ancestors and community; or enchanted by the allure of mysticism and would-be prophets. There are gossips and party girls - and a schoolboy followed home by a group of tribal masquerades, cloaked in feathers and twinkling beads. Yes, his mother has warned him not to bring strangers home, but he is sure she will understand ... Exploring the dark borders between psychology and superstition, these feverishly imaginative stories of trauma, betrayal, terror and love lay bare the forces of myth, tradition, gender, sexuality and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy, and glinting with humour and insight, they announce a major new literary talent.
Ghostroots Stories
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Author : 'Pemi Aguda
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2024-05-07
Ghostroots Stories written by 'Pemi Aguda and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with Fiction categories.
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before. In “Manifest,” a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter’s face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In “Breastmilk,” a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she is unable to produce milk for her newborn, she blames herself for failing to uphold her mother’s feminist values and doubts her fitness for motherhood. In “Things Boys Do,” a trio of fathers finds something unnatural and unnerving about their infant sons. As their lives rapidly fall to pieces, they begin to fear that their sons are the cause of their troubles. And in “24, Alhaji Williams Street,” a teenage boy lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease that’s killing the boys on his street. These and other stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy and glinting with humor, they announce a major new literary talent.
The Night Villa
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Author : Carol Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-03-03
The Night Villa written by Carol Goodman and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Fiction categories.
The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers of volcanic ash lies the Villa della Notte - the Night Villa - once home to the captivating slave girl at the heart of an ancient controversy. And concealed in a subterranean labyrinth rests a cache of antique documents believed lost to the ages: a prize too alluring for Sophie to resist. But whatever shocking events transpired in the face of Vesuvius's fury has led to deeper intrigues - and Sophie is swiftly sucked into their dark and terrifying vortex . . .
Foundation Stones
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Author : Hely Hutchinson Augustus Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Foundation Stones written by Hely Hutchinson Augustus Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Christian life categories.
Charming Divine Doctor
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Author : Qing Chen
language : en
Publisher: Funstory
Release Date : 2019-12-06
Charming Divine Doctor written by Qing Chen and has been published by Funstory this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with Fiction categories.
He has just graduated from university and unexpectedly obtained a hundred years of cultivation. With the ancient medical arts, he is invincible within a hundred years. Who can stop him from picking up a girl, who dares to be his enemy?
The Blind Light
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Author : Stuart Evers
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-06-11
The Blind Light written by Stuart Evers and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021 ‘Extraordinary’ – Spectator ‘Powerful’ – Guardian ‘Spellbinding’ – The Tablet As the 1950s draw to a close, and the Cold War escalates, the shape of Drummond Moore's life is changed beyond measure when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with James Carter, a rich and well-connected fellow national serviceman. Carter leads him to Doom Town – an army base that seeks to recreate the effects of a nuclear war – where he meets Gwen, a barmaid with whom he shares an instant connection. Set over sixty years of British history, The Blind Light by Stuart Evers is the compelling story of one family as they deal with the personal and political fallout of their times.
Harrow
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Author : Joy Williams
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2022-01-06
Harrow written by Joy Williams and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-06 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. 'When the book was over, I missed the awful, cleansing darkness of its eyes upon me ' New Yorker Books of the Year 2021 'This is the apocalypse as reimagined by a committee headed by Dalí, Kafka and Yorgos Lanthimos.' Observer Winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 LA Times Prize Longlisted for the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment, then came back to life. After Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and her mother disappears, she ranges across the dead landscape and finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call 'Big Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. Rivetingly strange and delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is a tale of paradise lost and the reasons to try and recover something of it.
Journal Of Veterinary Dentistry
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Journal Of Veterinary Dentistry written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Veterinary dentistry categories.
Sisters
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Author : Daisy Johnson
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-08-24
Sisters written by Daisy Johnson and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Fiction categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times “It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review “Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. “One of her generation’s most intriguing authors” (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior—until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls’ past and future. Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as “entrancing” (The New Yorker), “a force of nature” (The New York Times Book Review), and “weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling” (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache—a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other’s darkest impulses.
The English Lepidoptera
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Author : Moses Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The English Lepidoptera written by Moses Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Science categories.