Nudibranch

Author: Irenosen Okojie

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9780349700915
  • : Dialogue Books
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  • : December 2020
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  • : Irenosen Okojie
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Barcode 9780349700915
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Description

GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019


AFRICAN BOOK ADDICT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS 2019
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In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . .


A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs.


A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator.


Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning.


And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time.


Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal.


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PRAISE FOR IRENOSEN OKOJIE


'One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge in many a year'
ALEX WHEATLE MBE


'Irenosen Okojie delves into the painful, the unsayable, the unknowable'
BERNARDINE EVARISTO, GUARDIAN


'An original and highly unpredictable imagination . . . Prepare to be startled'
RUPERT THOMSON


'Okojie has a sharp eye for the twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches from elegance to brutality in a single line'
STELLA DUFFY


'Unique and imaginative'
DIANA EVANS, bestselling author of Ordinary People