Ghostroots: The most 'thrilling and disturbing' (Financial Times) literary horror of 2024
Autor 'Pemi Agudaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2025
A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD, THE LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIONS YOUNG FICTION AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITING AND THE WORLD FANTASY AWARDS FOR BEST COLLECTION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY MAIL, ELLE, TIME MAGAZINE AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Thrilling and disturbing ... a triumph' Financial Times
'Excellently uncanny' Daily Mail
'Terrifying' TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
Exploring the dark borders between psychology and superstition, these feverishly imaginative stories of trauma, betrayal, terror and love lay bare the forces of myth, tradition, gender, sexuality and modernity in Nigerian society. Here are characters cursed by guilt, bound by the ties of ancestors and community; or enchanted by the allure of mysticism and would-be prophets. Powered by a deep empathy, and glinting with humour and insight, they announce a major new literary talent.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349018249
ISBN-10: 0349018243
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349018243
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The eerie and the everyday are perfectly aligned in these twelve stories set in the hustle and bustle of Lagos in Nigeria ... excellently uncanny
A thrilling work by a truly sublime and imaginative writer. 'Pemi Aguda's stories are both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way ... you'll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages
Beautifully strange and delightfully unexpected, each story is a tiny wonder. I'm desperate to read more from 'Pemi Aguda
Ghostroots is the kind of collection you dream of discovering and reading - from one of my favorite living writers
A marvellously unsettling collection where the everyday strangeness of life and the uncanny rub up against each other to create real fire
'Pemi Aguda is an astonishing talent. She's inventive with form and playful with sentences. In Ghostroots, the delightful speculative conceits of the stories are elegantly, even architecturally, balanced with the gorgeous fullness of human emotion, all the hunger and longing and fear and delight of being a human being in the world. A wonderful collection from a truly gifted writer
'Pemi Aguda is spectacular. This book is a big, strong river. Once you are caught in its currents, you flow with it no matter where it runs. And it runs through gorgeous and startling places
In this perceptive and astute collection, 'Pemi Aguda tells of the metaphysical cracks on the surface of contemporary Nigerian society with an uncompromising humane touch
Here you'll find breathtaking stories of the familiar and the strange, full of empathy for characters trying to bridge chasms between communities, families, generations, and their ghosts. 'Pemi Aguda builds worlds with blade-like acuity. You'll be caught in their sway and transported.
I loved everything about this book, which heralds a major and extraordinary new voice in fiction. 'Pemi Aguda knows where the real magic is, and she gives it all its gorgeousness, all its teeth. These stories consumed me. I'll be thinking about them for years to come
Ghostroots is a triumph! The author's strong storytelling skills give readers the gift of realistic characters and darkly imaginative stories that creep under your skin and stay buried there. Disturbing, enthralling and unforgettable. 'Pemi Aguda is now among my favourites.
Where to even start? This is one of the finest collections I have read. Inventive, cunning, original, and all conveyed with impeccable prose. And what a voice, what a unique vision. These stories read like only 'Pemi Aguda could have written them, with her distinct style and an unshakable sensibility evident in every sly turn of story, taking the narrative in perfect, unpredictable directions. Nothing short of phenomenal
The 12 thought-provoking speculative stories, featuring mostly women protagonists, a strong narrative voice, and a focus on the unsettling results of generational divides, lay bare the universal human experience, illuminating the menace that constantly lurks just below the surface ... Aguda's excellent story collection deserves a wide audience
Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, these stories herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction
Mesmerizing and unsettling ... a smart, playful, and compassionate collection worthy of repeated reads
Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos ... Aguda stirs her cauldron of social criticism, feminism, structural invention and grotesque gothic twists into a triumph of genre-bending storytelling, a kind of African uncanny all of her own ... thrilling and disturbing
Haunted and blazingly original
An instant classic. Ghostroots is an elegantly constructed, breathtakingly beautiful, numinous collection of stories that present emotional blueprints of the Lagosian soul as a way of investigating the larger human condition
Impeccably voiced and consistently unsettling ... a must-read
An unsettling short story collection set in a mythical version of the author's homeland of Lagos, Nigeria. Terrifying
These stories ... unflinchingly explore complicated human emotions. Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, they herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction
Aguda's debut collection resonates, with strong craft and an uncanny sensibility, mining a thread of lurking menace through 12 speculative stories that brilliantly inhabit her home city of Lagos
Aguda's stories open many doors: snaking through spirit markets, forests swathed in night, high rises, white-walled labour wards, waterfalls and online forums for troubled fathers. They will soothe and haunt you, then trip you up for good measure. Aguda is a formidable writer.
Welcome to Lagos ... as you've never seen it before.
A woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter's face.
A mysterious virus wipes out all the boys on one street.
A young architect turns up to measure a house, only to find that her drawings make no sense, and the house seems to resist her ...
'The eerie and the everyday are perfectly aligned in these twelve stories set in the hustle and bustle of Lagos in Nigeria ... excellently uncanny' Daily Mail
'Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos ... thrilling and disturbing' Financial Times
'Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, these stories herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction' New York Times Book Review
'Both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way ... you'll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us
A thrilling work by a truly sublime and imaginative writer. 'Pemi Aguda's stories are both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way ... you'll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages
Beautifully strange and delightfully unexpected, each story is a tiny wonder. I'm desperate to read more from 'Pemi Aguda
Ghostroots is the kind of collection you dream of discovering and reading - from one of my favorite living writers
A marvellously unsettling collection where the everyday strangeness of life and the uncanny rub up against each other to create real fire
'Pemi Aguda is an astonishing talent. She's inventive with form and playful with sentences. In Ghostroots, the delightful speculative conceits of the stories are elegantly, even architecturally, balanced with the gorgeous fullness of human emotion, all the hunger and longing and fear and delight of being a human being in the world. A wonderful collection from a truly gifted writer
'Pemi Aguda is spectacular. This book is a big, strong river. Once you are caught in its currents, you flow with it no matter where it runs. And it runs through gorgeous and startling places
In this perceptive and astute collection, 'Pemi Aguda tells of the metaphysical cracks on the surface of contemporary Nigerian society with an uncompromising humane touch
Here you'll find breathtaking stories of the familiar and the strange, full of empathy for characters trying to bridge chasms between communities, families, generations, and their ghosts. 'Pemi Aguda builds worlds with blade-like acuity. You'll be caught in their sway and transported.
I loved everything about this book, which heralds a major and extraordinary new voice in fiction. 'Pemi Aguda knows where the real magic is, and she gives it all its gorgeousness, all its teeth. These stories consumed me. I'll be thinking about them for years to come
Ghostroots is a triumph! The author's strong storytelling skills give readers the gift of realistic characters and darkly imaginative stories that creep under your skin and stay buried there. Disturbing, enthralling and unforgettable. 'Pemi Aguda is now among my favourites.
Where to even start? This is one of the finest collections I have read. Inventive, cunning, original, and all conveyed with impeccable prose. And what a voice, what a unique vision. These stories read like only 'Pemi Aguda could have written them, with her distinct style and an unshakable sensibility evident in every sly turn of story, taking the narrative in perfect, unpredictable directions. Nothing short of phenomenal
The 12 thought-provoking speculative stories, featuring mostly women protagonists, a strong narrative voice, and a focus on the unsettling results of generational divides, lay bare the universal human experience, illuminating the menace that constantly lurks just below the surface ... Aguda's excellent story collection deserves a wide audience
Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, these stories herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction
Mesmerizing and unsettling ... a smart, playful, and compassionate collection worthy of repeated reads
Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos ... Aguda stirs her cauldron of social criticism, feminism, structural invention and grotesque gothic twists into a triumph of genre-bending storytelling, a kind of African uncanny all of her own ... thrilling and disturbing
Haunted and blazingly original
An instant classic. Ghostroots is an elegantly constructed, breathtakingly beautiful, numinous collection of stories that present emotional blueprints of the Lagosian soul as a way of investigating the larger human condition
Impeccably voiced and consistently unsettling ... a must-read
An unsettling short story collection set in a mythical version of the author's homeland of Lagos, Nigeria. Terrifying
These stories ... unflinchingly explore complicated human emotions. Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, they herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction
Aguda's debut collection resonates, with strong craft and an uncanny sensibility, mining a thread of lurking menace through 12 speculative stories that brilliantly inhabit her home city of Lagos
Aguda's stories open many doors: snaking through spirit markets, forests swathed in night, high rises, white-walled labour wards, waterfalls and online forums for troubled fathers. They will soothe and haunt you, then trip you up for good measure. Aguda is a formidable writer.
Welcome to Lagos ... as you've never seen it before.
A woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter's face.
A mysterious virus wipes out all the boys on one street.
A young architect turns up to measure a house, only to find that her drawings make no sense, and the house seems to resist her ...
'The eerie and the everyday are perfectly aligned in these twelve stories set in the hustle and bustle of Lagos in Nigeria ... excellently uncanny' Daily Mail
'Magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos ... thrilling and disturbing' Financial Times
'Wildly inventive and odd, but written with surgeonlike precision, these stories herald the arrival of a major voice in speculative fiction' New York Times Book Review
'Both absorbing and terrifying in the most delightful and addictive way ... you'll find it hard to tear yourself away from the pages' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us