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27%OFFAyobami Adebayo - A Spell of Good Things: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - 9781838856052 - 9781838856052
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A Spell of Good Things: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: the Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Stylist, the Express and Oprah Daily

Ayòbámi Adébáyò, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Stay With Me, unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.

Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781838856052
SKU
9781838856052
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ayobami Adebayo
Ayòbámi Adébáyò was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut novel, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature, was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction, the Wellcome Book Prize and the Kwani? Manuscript Prize. It has been translated into twenty languages and the French translation was awarded the Prix Les Afriques. Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas ... Read more

Reviews for A Spell of Good Things: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Adebayo is carving a real name for herself as a chronicler of moving Nigeria-set stories with sociopolitical subtexts and a Dickensian flavour . . . Profound

Observer

A moving story, skilfully told, about Eniola, a boy whose future has been snatched away from him, and Wuraola, a talented, overworked junior doctor, whose intertwined narratives ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A Spell of Good Things: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023


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