by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
This was exactly the type of world lit book I enjoy reading. It is set in Nigeria and written by a Nigerian, so it felt like I was reading the story from within, from that perspective. It disobeyed all the rules of how to write about Africa, set out in that tongue-in-cheek Granta article several y...
419 scams, family hopes, money problems, a mostly fun book.
This is one of those books that takes a grim situation and turns it into a fun and entertaining story: the background is poverty and corruption in Nigeria, but the book is the polar opposite of, say, [b:The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born|264587|The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born|Ayi Kwei Armah|htt...
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