The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa (Hörbuch (Download))
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023
(Sprache: Englisch)
** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 **
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **
'A voice unlike any other'OBSERVER
'I fell in love immediately' MAX PORTER
'A writer of imagination and...
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **
'A voice unlike any other'OBSERVER
'I fell in love immediately' MAX PORTER
'A writer of imagination and...
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** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 **
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **
'A voice unlike any other'OBSERVER
'I fell in love immediately' MAX PORTER
'A writer of imagination and flair'ECONOMIST
'Smart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking' KAMILA SHAMSIE
'Buoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes'THE TIMES
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls – especially blondes – and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa.
Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed 'Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, despite his mother's denials, to be Andy's father, and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church – both set to shake the foundations of everything Andy knows and loves.
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa announces a dazzling, distinctive, new literary voice. Profound, exhilarating and highly original, this tragicomic novel is a stunning exploration of the contemporary African 'condition', the relentless infiltration of Western culture and, most of all, the ordinary but impossible challenges of coming of age in a turbulent world.
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **
'A voice unlike any other'OBSERVER
'I fell in love immediately' MAX PORTER
'A writer of imagination and flair'ECONOMIST
'Smart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking' KAMILA SHAMSIE
'Buoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes'THE TIMES
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls – especially blondes – and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa.
Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed 'Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, despite his mother's denials, to be Andy's father, and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church – both set to shake the foundations of everything Andy knows and loves.
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa announces a dazzling, distinctive, new literary voice. Profound, exhilarating and highly original, this tragicomic novel is a stunning exploration of the contemporary African 'condition', the relentless infiltration of Western culture and, most of all, the ordinary but impossible challenges of coming of age in a turbulent world.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stephen Buoro
- 2023, ungekürzte Lesung, Spieldauer: 638 Minuten
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1526638045
- ISBN-13: 9781526638045
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2023
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- Grösse: 444 MB
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Autoren-Porträt von Stephen Buoro
Stephen Buoro was born in Nigeria in 1993. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia where he received the the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. He lives in Norwich, United Kingdom. Andy Africa is his first novel.
Pressezitat
This ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster . . . Buoro commits to representing diversity within Blackness, the way Toni Morrison does . . . You wouldn’t be wrong to read the book as satire of a certain kind of Black aspiration, or as an allegory of Africa and the western imperialist project. Or you could read it as itself, without abstracting its particularities: the story of a boy doing his best under the assault of powerful western influences and illusions
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