Je ne viens pas à vous par hasard - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Séverine Quelet • BookLikes (ISBN:2258087724)

Je ne viens pas à vous par hasard

by: Séverine Quelet (author) Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (author)

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9782258087729 (2258087724)

Publish date: October 20th 2011

Publisher: Presses de la Cité

Edition language: French

Category:

Novels, Literature, Cultural, Africa, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Contemporary, African Literature

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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...

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419 scams, family hopes, money problems, a mostly fun book.

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Merle rated it

54 years ago

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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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