Irenosen Okojie: Nudibranch

GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 AFRICAN BOOK ADDICT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS 2019 ____________ In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . . A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs. A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator. Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning. And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time. Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal. ____________ PRAISE FOR IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge in many a year' ALEX WHEATLE MBE 'Irenosen Okojie delves into the painful, the unsayable, the unknowable' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, GUARDIAN 'An original and highly unpredictable imagination . . . Prepare to be startled' RUPERT THOMSON 'Okojie has a sharp eye for the twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches from elegance to brutality in a single line' STELLA DUFFY 'Unique and imaginative' DIANA EVANS, bestselling author of Ordinary People