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Set against the uncompromising landscape of East Los Angeles, Abani follows a struggling artist named Black, whose life and friendships reveal a world far removed from the mainstream. Through Black's self-discovery, Abani raises essential question...

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A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he enc...

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A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."--T. Coraghessan Boyle The sprawling, swamp...

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A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he enc...

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Graceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talentThe sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by fl...

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For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above 'The Ugly Store', he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the transvestite stripper who serves as his muse. ...

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Abani's fourth poetry collection - a mischevious book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor.

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Chris Abani finds the sacred in a charged and broken world, to "build meaning from detritus."

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In this time of global civil rights movements, Smoking the Bible lends insights to a Black African's immigration experience to the United States, as well as a Black man's current experience living in the US. Abani is an acclaimed international voi...

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There Are No Names for Red is a collaborative work featuring the poetry of Chris Abani and the paintings of Percival Everett.

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A startling debut volume, the latest in Chris Abani''s Black Goat Poetry Series.

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West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors.

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This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets.

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Supported by the African Poetry Book Fund, Prairie Schooner, and the Library of Congress, the previous volumes have been critically acclaimed, receiving glowing reviews in the New York Times, Poetry Society of America, Kenyon Review , the Washingt...

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';Chris Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.'Pride Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani's fourth poetry collectiona mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive hu...

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';Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.' Library Journal';Stunning poems.' New HumanistA self-described...

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An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible.Smoking the ...

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“A fascinating meditation on identity that explores the novelist’s own mixed heritage and mixed feelings….A true citizen of the world….With great insight and compassion, Abani reveals that behind his—and every&mdash...

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"A fascinating meditation on identity that explores the novelist's own mixed heritage and mixed feelings....A true citizen of the world....With great insight and compassion, Abani reveals that behind his-and every-face are unseen scars."...

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Even with the knowledge that there are some sins too big for even God to forgive, every night my sky is still full of stars; a wonderful song for night. Trained as a human mine detector, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part in uns...

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Tough, spirited, and fiercely independent, Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. She flees, struggling to find herself in the shadow of a strong but dead mother, in this po...

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"The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman-the power of her ties to family, husband and her 'adopted' country, Nigeria-as w...

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Chris Abani's Dog Woman is a mesmerizing, haunting, and sometimes subversive exploration of the personal and cultural politics of disempowerment and power. In these heart rousing and lyrically complex poems, the poet enacts the reconstruction of h...

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An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigerias best loved writers. From the introduction by Chris Abani: The thirteen stories tha...

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"e;Compelling and gorgeously written, this is a coming-of-age novella like no other. Chris Abani explores the depths of loss and exploitation with what can only be described as a knowing tenderness. An extraordinary, necessary book."e;Cris...

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From the National Book Award-nominated author of Dreaming in Cuban, “breathtakingly beautiful” poems about her troubled, self-destructive brother (The Austin Chronicle).   “[A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astr...

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Abigail är tonåring, framfusig, modig och självständig, men förs till London från Nigeria av en släkting som försöker tvinga henne in i prostitution. Samtidigt kämpar Abigail med sitt förflutna, modern som dog i barnsäng och fadern som begick själ...

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Läs ett provkapitel här Chris Abanis genombrottsroman från 2004 om den 16-årige Elvis Okes öden och äventyr i det tidiga 80-talets Lagos. Nu på svenska i Roy Isakssons översättning.

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Genom huvudpersonens inre monolog får läsaren följa den femtonårige minröjaren Min lycka, som efter en minexplosion har förlorat kontakten med sin pluton, på hans lyriska, hemska, men ändå storartade resa genom det krigshärjade, mardrömslika lands...

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