Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
Pages: 238
Year: 2015
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Literature, Urban Life
Dimensions: 203 x 127mm
The most appealing quality of the novel is its haunting and unusual prose that really ought to be termed poetry. But this is poetry with an added touch as it is also a narrative that weaves together many lives engrossed in the daily struggle for survival. There are no heroes or villains, just ordinary folk trying to make the most of extraordinary circumstances.
£29.00
About the author
Sanya Osha is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Naked Light and the
Blind Eye. His fictional work, Dust, Spittle and Wind won the
Association of Nigerian Authors’ prize for prose in 1992. In 2000, he
was a recipient of a Prince Claus Award. He lives in South Africa and is currently a South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) fellow at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria; and research fellow at the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), Pretoria.
Review
“Sanya Osha is incapable of being unpoetic”
Sahara Reporters
“A bold and beautiful writer”
Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters’ Street