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Chris Abani (A cura di), Nnedi Okorafor (Contribution by), E. C. Osondu (Contribution by), Jude Dibia (Contribution by), Chika Unigwe (Contribution by), A. Igoni Barrett (Contribution by), Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Contribution by), Adebola Rayo (Contribution by), Onyinye Ihezukwu (Contribution by), Uche Okonkwo (Contribution by), Wale Lawal (Contribution by), 'Pemi Aguda (Contribution by), Leye Adenle (Contribution by)
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor, E.C. Osondu, Jude Dibia, Chika Unigwe, A. Igoni Barrett, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Adebola Rayo, Onyinye Ihezukwu, Uche Okonkwo, Wale Lawal, ‘Pemi Aguda, and Leye Adenle. From “What They Did that Night” by contributor Jude Dibia: Everything from then on seemed to happen fast, just like life in Lagos—the real Lagos, not the make-believe utopia of these island estates, where rich people’s children rode fancy bicycles, played basketball, and had nannies and gatemen. Complete darkness came swiftly. Lagos nights could be unforgiving. From “Just Ignore and Try to Endure” by contributor A. Igoni Barrett: For anyone can see that Lagos is a city of rats—they far outnumber the twenty million human inhabitants. They live in our homes, feed better than we do on our waste, and adapt more quickly to the poisons and anthropogenic microbes wiping us off the earth. Even today no map of Lagos would be complete without a rat’s-eye view of the garbage landfills and trash-choked canals, the mechanic workshops bursting with metallic skeletons dusted in rust, the polluted subsoil devoid of plant root networks, the crumbling foundations of concrete constructions, the underground labyrinth of household septic tanks leaking sludge into the groundwater. The rotting underbelly of the city we built for the rats.
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Cartaceo
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Mystery, Fiction and Literature
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Akashic Books (Editore)
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