Chika Unigwe - Böcker

Svartsystragatan är en roman om fyra kvinnor som tagit sig från Västafrika och hamnat i bordellkvarteren i Antwerpen. Gemensamt för dem alla är att de drivits hemifrån med förespeglingar om att få del av de rikedomar som Europa ska ge dem. Men när...

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Four very different women have made their way from Africa to Brussels. They have come to claim for themselves the riches they believe Europe promises but when Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, is murdered, their already fragile world is shatt...

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Charts the unconventional lives and love affairs of a group of Nigerian migrants, making their way in Belgium. The collection is centred around Prosperous and her husband Agu, and the various visitors who gather at their apartment each week. These...

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I en mosaik av tio sammanhängande berättelser skildrar Chika Unigwe i Bättre aldrig än sent en grupp nigerianska invandrare och deras liv i belgiska Flandern. Det handlar om olyckliga skenäktenskap och förlorade möjligheter, hemlängtan och ensamhe...

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To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images.Yet here, through personal essays from 24...

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Four very different women have made their way from Africa to Brussels. They have come to claim for themselves the riches they believe Europe promises but when Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, is murdered, their already fragile world is shatt...

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Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone. She has been left everything. But she's also inherited her mother's bad name. A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bri...

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE It is Baby's birthday, but Grace has not seen her first born in twenty-six years. Now a wife, mother to twin daughters and the owner of a successful medical clinic, Grace has carefully constructe...

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Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness. When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunders...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of her family, she is beguiled by an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed 'man of God' who se...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of her family, she is beguiled by an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed 'man of God' who se...

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8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her "the girl with...

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9 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her "the girl with...

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8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her "the girl with...

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A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for fans of Bernardine Evaristo and Tayari JonesUdodis death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had alr...

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