Tag: Faber and Faber
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A review of Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly
Book: An Elegy for Easterly Author: Petina Gappah Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publication: 2009 Number of pages: 273 We suffered a bit in the 1990s when the Kenyan shilling was devalued by 30% at one go in 1993 and we suffered the worst inflation in our history. The US dollar was suddenly going…
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A review of Chibundu Onuzo’s The Spider King’s Daughter
Book: The Spider King’s Daughter Author: Chibundu Onuzo Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publication: 2012 Number of pages: 286 This story has two main characters. On the one hand is seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson the favourite daughter of a very rich fellow living in Lagos, Nigeria. Her life is a very high-end affair and as…
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Excerpt for new old Teju Cole book Every Day is for the Thief
So Teju Cole came to Nairobi in a blaze of glory last year at the Storymoja Hay Festival. He came to these shores on the back of the Faber & Faber published Open City. The book is about a psychotic rapist Nigerian/German walking around New York and giving his strange view of the world. The…