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ISBN10: 9785341046
ISBN13: 9789785341041
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 11 2015
Pages: 378
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789785341041
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 11 2015
Pages: 378
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Somber City is an evocative novel of the promise, expectation, and disenchantment of life in contemporary Nigeria, in a dismal perspective of its most populous city, Lagos. The novel illuminates, through a mix of fact and fiction, a seminal moment in modern history: Nigeria's fervent passage through a period of immense oil wealth in the 1970s to a sudden descent into a cataclysmal debt trap in the early 1980s. This chaotic period, captured within the city of Lagos, is experienced alongside the protagonist Femi Falashe, a young engineer seeking to get his life back in track after a sudden job loss, as well as five other unforgettable characters
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