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A Kind of Madness

A Kind of Madness

Short stories

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Publisher's Synopsis

A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, babies with hydra heads squished into pulp. Everday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection. Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, weaving through their lunacy and longing, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more. Brimming with vitality, these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more.

Book information

ISBN: 9780857309013
Publisher: Verve Books
Imprint: Verve Books
Pub date:
Edition: Short stories
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 158g
Height: 128mm
Width: 198mm
Spine width: 16mm