Vagabonds! / Eloghosa Osunde.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : 4th Estate, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 303 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008498023; 0008498024; 0008498016; 9780008498016Subject(s): Marginality, Social -- Nigeria -- Fiction | Sexual minorities -- Nigeria -- Fiction | Tramps -- Nigeria -- Fiction | Nigeria -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: Magic realist fiction. | Gay fiction. Summary: VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos. 'You don't read this novel. You swan dive into it, then gasp in wonder' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'Electrifying. A fierce, compulsively engaging and striking debut' Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch Lagos is a city for all . . . you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and it's just as much their city as it is yours. Eko, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the 'vagabonds' powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose. With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos. 'You don't read this novel. You swan dive into it, then gasp in wonder' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'Electrifying. A fierce, compulsively engaging and striking debut' Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch Lagos is a city for all . . . you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and it's just as much their city as it is yours. Eko, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the 'vagabonds' powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose. With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows.
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