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'A vital work for our times'IRENOSEN OKOJIE

'Radical, gorgeous ... a queer love song, honouring chosen family'BIG ISSUE

'Beautiful ... this is prose worth spending time with'MARIE CLAIRE

'A gorgeously deeply humane book' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN

'A vivid, stirring revolution'YRSA DALEY-WARD

'The ink practically hovers off the page'KAVEH AKBAR

What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone?

Across Lagos, a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms, daring to push all other relationships - with partners, family and friends - to the brink in the process. As they form and break unexpected connections, they reveal how they know each other, have loved each other and had their hearts broken in that pursuit.

Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed, they work to establish themselves in the city's worlds of art, music, entertainment and creativity while reckoning with desire, fear, death and God. Here, we witness their collective and individual attempts to grapple with the necessary fictions that they all carry for survival.

This is a shimmering, defiant cross-generational portrait of what it means to be queer in contemporary Nigeria.

'Both deeply earnest and unique'VULTURE

'Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful'NPR

'Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation'TLS

'Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive' MARLON JAMES, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

'Osunde's writing shines ... It's not just beautiful - it's transformative'BASSEY IKPI, author of I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying

'A vital work for our times'IRENOSEN OKOJIE

'Radical, gorgeous ... a queer love song, honouring chosen family'BIG ISSUE

'Beautiful ... this is prose worth spending time with'MARIE CLAIRE

'A gorgeously deeply humane book' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN

'A vivid, stirring revolution'YRSA DALEY-WARD

'The ink practically hovers off the page'KAVEH AKBAR

What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone?

Across Lagos, a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms, daring to push all other relationships - with partners, family and friends - to the brink in the process. As they form and break unexpected connections, they reveal how they know each other, have loved each other and had their hearts broken in that pursuit.

Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed, they work to establish themselves in the city's worlds of art, music, entertainment and creativity while reckoning with desire, fear, death and God. Here, we witness their collective and individual attempts to grapple with the necessary fictions that they all carry for survival.

This is a shimmering, defiant cross-generational portrait of what it means to be queer in contemporary Nigeria.

'Both deeply earnest and unique'VULTURE

'Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful'NPR

'Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation'TLS

'Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive' MARLON JAMES, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

'Osunde's writing shines ... It's not just beautiful - it's transformative'BASSEY IKPI, author of I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying

Über den Autor

Eloghosa Osunde is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist. Their critically acclaimed debut novel Vagabonds! was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. They are the recipient of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction 2021, the MoAD's African Literary Award 2023 and an ASME Award for Fiction. Their writing has been published in The Paris Review, Granta, Guernica and elsewhere. They move between Nigeria, Nairobi, New York City and wherever else their work calls. They can be found online at [...].

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 320 S.
ISBN-13: 9780008708627
ISBN-10: 0008708622
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Osunde, Eloghosa
Hersteller: Harper Collins Publ. UK
Fourth Estate
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 214 x 134 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Eloghosa Osunde
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2025
Gewicht: 0,326 kg
Artikel-ID: 133775671

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