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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT (Mai 2024)
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	FICTION / Cultural Heritage / FICTION / Short Stories (single author) / Narrative theme# Politics / Narrative theme# Social issues / Nigeria / Short Stories
ISBN:	9781035906116
EAN-Code:	9781035906116
Verlag:	Bloomsbury
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 198 mm / B 129 mm / D
Seiten:	320
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

Inhalt:

Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja. Carefully selected by their hostess - an enigmatic figure who calls herself, 'The Black Lady The' - the passengers on this journey range from a wealthy tribal chief to a humble petrol pump attendant, from a rain-maker to a reserved woman observing purdah. They are united only by their dissatisfaction with Nigeria's chaotic and corrupt regime, a concern which is reflected in the widely differing stories they tell on their journey - bawdy tales, sharp satires, poignant narratives and moral fables. Blending poetry and prose, rich visual images, and witty puns, Karen King-Aribisala succeeds in transforming a fourteenth-century English classic into an exuberant and distinctively African work.