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Butterfly Fish
Irenosen Okojie
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Description for Butterfly Fish
Hardcover. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 241 x 32. Weight in Grams: 548.
Betty Trask Award winner 2016.
A stunning debut from the author of Speak Gigantular.
A fragile outsider living in London, Joy struggles to pull the threads of her life back together after her mother's sudden death. Emptiness consumes her and, needing to fill the gaps of her loss, she finds she is drawn to a unique artefact inherited from her mother - a warrior's head cast in brass that belonged to a king in eighteenth century Benin, Nigeria.
Joy is haunted by a beautiful young woman who appears in her photographs, familiar yet beguilingly distinct, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909762060
SKU
V9781909762060
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About Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She is a Contributing Editor ... Read more
Reviews for Butterfly Fish
Butterfly Fish is a novel of epic proportions... From sentence to sentence, Okojie conjures up acutely observed, beautifully-worded metaphors that resonate and delight... I fully expect to see Butterfly Fish on many an award nomination list. It is a fascinating read, and one I highly recommend.
Yvette Edwards (author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, longlisted for the Man ... Read more
Yvette Edwards (author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, longlisted for the Man ... Read more