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His tenacious placidity shattered in the wake of local violence, Lomba, a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, witnesses such horrifying events as his roommate's brutal attack by soldiers, his lover's forced marriage, and his neighbor's riot-inducing demonstration. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

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"This is a startlingly vivid novel....Habila paints an extraordinary tableau ... bringing sounds, sights and smells to life with his space prose and flair for metaphor."

Tender, funny and compassionate. -- Doris Lessing

Tender, funny and compassionate.--Doris Lessing

Tender, funny and compassionate. --Doris Lessing

Tender, funny and compassionate. --Doris Lessing"

Habila's language is joyous a celebration of artistic freedom and a stylish two fingers at his previous oppressors. "

Habila's debut is exciting...he is one of the first literary voices to emerge from the newly democratic Nigeria. "

Habila leaves us a chink of hope, just as he leaves space for irony, love, heartbreak, and humor as the punches rain down....This is a beautifully judged work, powerful, compassionate and complete.

This is a startlingly vivid novel....Habila paints an extraordinary tableau...bringing sounds, sights and smells to life with his spare prose and flair for metaphor.

Habila employs a prose whose spirituality recalls Wole Soyinka, Amilcar Cabral and King.--Wally Hammond
About the Author:
Helon Habila is the internationally renowned author of Waiting for an Angel, which won both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Caine Prize for African Writing, and Measuring Time and Oil on Water. He was born in Nigeria and now divides his time between America and Nigeria.

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  • PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 0393051935
  • ISBN 13 9780393051933
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages256
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Light shelf-wear.The generation-defining successor to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his roommate is brutally attacked by soldiers; his first love is forced to marry a wealthy general; and his neighbors on Poverty Street are planning a demonstration that is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand. Helon Habila's vivid, exciting, and heart-wrenching debut opens a window onto a world in some ways familiar-with its sensuously depicted streets, student life, and vibrant local characters-yet ruled by one of the world's most corrupt and oppressive regimes, a scandal that ultimately drives Lomba to take a risk in the name of something greater than himself. Habila captures the energy, sensitivity, despair, and stubborn hope of a new African generation with a combination of gritty realism and poetic beauty. Seller Inventory # 002244

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