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The Return: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

The Return: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

Plöger de Àjàgùnnà, Tilo

Paperback

Series: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798278704478
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 14 2025
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE RETURN
A novel about coming back to the same place until time demands its price.

Across twenty years, one woman keeps coming back to the same transit landmark: a station platform, a tree, a corner the city refuses to leave unchanged. Each visit looks almost the same-timetables, taped notices, rerouted access, a single ring-stain on the concrete-but the meaning has shifted: first arrival, postponed departure, anniversaries, delayed goodbyes, a life that seemed temporary and then was not.

Structured as a series of Returns (Year 0, Year 1-2, Year 3, ... Year 20), THE RETURN reads like time spiralling through its own mistakes. Renovations are half-finished, routes rerouted, an ERROR message on the departures screen flashes for one second and then disappears. The city changes just enough to make each visit feel like both repetition and betrayal. The question is not whether she will leave, but what time wants back for letting her stay.

Readers familiar with Yoruba / Orisha and Ifá traditions - especially the Odù Òfún and the tree-rooted teachings of Ìrókò, guardian of long time and standing places - will recognise the pressure that runs through this book, but you do not need that vocabulary to feel it: here àṣẹ is time's invoice, the quiet insistence that every delay, every reroute, every refusal to leave will be answered later. White Xs show up as tape on notices, chalk on concrete, corrections on printed schedules - never explained, always accumulating weight.

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