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Adebayo, Ayobami. A Spell of Good Things - Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. Canongate Books Ltd., 2024.
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Ayobami Adebayo

A Spell of Good Things

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
  • Canongate Books Ltd.
  • 2024
  • Taschenbuch
  • 332 Seiten
  • ISBN 9781838856076

A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption. Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor and begging, dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family friends. When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a

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family party, Wuraola and Eniola's lives become unexpectedly intertwined. In this breathtaking novel, Ayobami Adebayo shines her light on Nigeria, the gaping divides in its society, and the shared humanity that lives in between.

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