Chris Abani

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction
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A teenage Elvis impersonator navigates the Lagos ghetto in this “searing chronicle of a young man’s coming of age in Nigeria during the late 1970s” (Publishers Weekly).Elvis Oke dreams of escaping the sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lago...

• Mar-2006
• / General Fiction
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A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand. -- A New York Times Editors’ Choice“Moody, lyrical prose reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s Beloved . . . Though the fictional ...

• Jan-2007
• / Suspense
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From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels Praised as “singular” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), GraceLand stunned ...

• Sep-2007
• / Literary
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“A devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away.” -- Los Angeles Times   Part Inferno, part Paradise Lost, part Sunjata epic, Song f...

• Jan-2014
• / Mystery
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Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he's sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help ...

• Oct-2018
• / Mystery
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An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria's best loved writers. From the introduction by Chris Abani: The thirteen stories that...