Publisher: Baron’s Cafe, Nigeria
Pages: 116
Year: 2016
Category: Literature, Short Stories
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm
A Tiny Place Called Happiness
This short story collection understands the narrative of the voiceless. It brings together the lives of dreamers and dreams from the Niger-Delta area of Nigeria-mostly, using experimental and diverse style to explore the human condition. The stories in the collection bring us to a homeland we do not see, and the writer, in turn, offers the narrated cough circumstances of his characters in tender words. Nwilo writes like an aspiration–his voice desires co cry many things and this is the reason we should heed this writer with many stories to tell.
£17.00
About the author
Bura-Bari Nwilo lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His interest in films pushed him to get a diploma in Screenwriting from the New York Film Academy through Del York. He studied English and Literature at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Nwilo is also a photo enthusiast. His funny book of rant on relationship is entitled Diary of a Stupid Boyfriend. His book of short stories, A Tiny Place Called Happiness, is in stores across Nigeria.
Review
“Nwilo writes with a quiet and fiery validation of African Englishes, specifically a certain Nigerian English – how refreshing! This is exactly the sore of re-imaginative work chat lovers of African fiction have been awaiting. A Tiny Place Called Happiness is a triumph for orature in literature every where!“
Donald Molosi, Author, We Are All Blue