-
3 weeks ago | 
lesen.de | Carley Fortune |James Baldwin |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood
PRE-ORDER THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY, NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CARLEY FORTUNE NOW!I never anticipated Charlie Florek. But Charlie Florek changed my life. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by:TODAY E! News Buzzfeed Us Weekly The New York Post SheReads, and more--Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's Nan always says. And it's true. It's where Alice took that photo, the one that catapulted her career.
-
3 weeks ago | 
lesen.de | Kristin Hannah |James Baldwin |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood
An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture!'Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry?Powerful' - Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight LibraryThe Number One bestselling novel which has captured the hearts of readers across the world. The Women is a novel of epic love and devastating loss.
-
1 month ago | 
lesen.de | Claire Lombardo |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood |Sally Rooney
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK BY PEOPLE AND PARADE • The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had returns with brilliantly observed novel of a woman in midlife on the verge of upending everything when sudden family events threaten to unearth her painful past..
-
Nov 9, 2024 | 
esquiresg.com | Chigozie Obioma
My process of composition is a long and sinuous one: first an idea comes to me, usually by serendipity. I can now allow the idea to incubate and grow into a fully formed piece—a novel or a short story. That period of incubation is often long, but when the story spills onto the page I am often satisfied because it has been a long time forming. But in 2011 when I completed the novel I had been writing since 2009, I felt that the narrative perspective was not right.
-
Sep 13, 2024 | 
modernagejournal.com | Chigozie Obioma
One modern view of war teaches that all of it is senseless; in the face of violence and suffering, the only thing one can do is echo the absurdist “Poo-tee-weet” of the birds overlooking fire-bombed Dresden in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Yet war has also been hero-making and culture-defining for the individual and society.
-
Sep 3, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Chigozie Obioma
Junior Nyong'o's low-key narration is exactly what this mystical story demands. In the 1960s, during the brutal Biafran-Nigerian civil war, Kunle, tormented by guilt over an accident that nearly killed his brother years ago, learns that his brother is now in Biafra. Kunle volunteers with the Red Cross since only they can cross the Nigerian blockade into Biafra. There he is captured by the Biafran army and forced to fight.
-
Aug 3, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Isabel Banta |Chigozie Obioma |Marcela A. Fuentes |Ishi Robinson
These works of coming of age fiction are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Honey”by Isabel Banta A small-town New Jersey teen is invited to become part of a new 1990s girl group where she inadvertently comes between one of her bandmates and her superstar boy-band boyfriend, threatening her new life and career.
-
Jul 10, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Chigozie Obioma |Blake Morrison
Kunle is a law student in Lagos with little grasp of what’s happening in the country. When his uncle asks, ‘You have heard that there is war in Eastern Region, abi?’ he shakes his head. He’s a lonely, ‘hermitic’ sort of boy. Since his transistor radio ran out of batteries, he hasn’t kept up with current events. Now term is over there’s no excuse for him not to visit his parents, who live a five-hour bus ride away.
-
Jul 2, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and prophecy”. It’s set in the brutal Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1960, fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence.
-
Jul 2, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Chigozie Obioma
© 2024 Tolerance.ca® Inc. All reproduction rights reserved. All information reproduced on the Web pages of www.tolerance.ca (including articles, images, photographs, and logos) is protected by intellectual property rights owned by Tolerance.ca® Inc. or, in certain cases, by its author. Any reproduction of the information for use other than personal use is prohibited.
