Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2018Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity.They are unlikely allies -- a private, a housewife, an officer, a militant and a young girl. They share a need for escape and a dream for the future. Soon, they will also share a burden none of them expected, but for now, the five sit quietly with their hopes, as the billboards fly past and shout: Welcome to Lagos.
CONTRIBUTORS: Chibundu Onuzo
EAN: 9780571268955
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 304 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Faber & Faber
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary, TRAVEL / Africa / West
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Nigeria, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. She is completing a PhD on the West African Student's Union at King's College London
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