Chris Abani - Böcker

Graceland är Chris Abanis genombrottsroman. En häpnadsväckande berättelse om 16-årige Elvis Oke som lever med sin alkoholiserade far i ett slumområde i jättestaden Lagos, Nigeria. Elvis drömmer om ett liv i frihet, utanför slummen och bortom fader...

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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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This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. Abani vividly describes the characters that peopled this dark world, fr...

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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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"e;Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force."e;--Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World i...

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This nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of eight African poets.

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

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

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

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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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';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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A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of expression; and a range of reference to contemporary life, history, art, and literature. Including both meditative and narrative poems, this volume frequ...

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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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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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