Akwaeke Emezi

En tres novelas aclamadas por la crítica, Akwaeke Emezi ha descubierto a sus lectores un universo marcado por tensiones familiares, sistemas de creencias igbo y la búsqueda inagotable de lo que significa ser libre. Ahora, en esta extraordinaria autobiografia, le autore de La muerte de Vivek Oji (consonni 2022) revela las desgarradoras a la par que ineludibles verdades de su propia vida. A traves de una correspondencia franca e intima con amistades, amantes y familiares, Emezi va delineando la desenvoltura de su ser y el inolvidable viaje de un espiritu creativo que accede a su poder en el mundo humano. Su historia, que entreteje un vertiginoso ascenso al exito como escritore con la toma de decisiones transformadoras sobre su genero y su cuerpo, sumado a una diversidad de tempestuosas relaciones emocionales, romanticas y espirituales, da forma a un libro delicado y brutal a partes iguales.

Una tarde, en una ciudad del sureste de Nigeria, una madre abre la puerta de su casa y se encuentra el cuerpo de su hijo, envuelto en tela de colores, a sus pies. Así comienza la vibrante historia de una familia y sus dificultades para comprender a un hijo de espiritu tan delicado como enigmatico. Criado por un padre distante y una madre comprensiva pero sobreprotectora, Vivek a menudo sufre desmayos, momentos confusos de desconexion entre su ser y el mundo que lo rodea. Cuando la adolescencia de paso a la edad adulta, Vivek hallara consuelo en la amistad de un grupo de chicas calidas y escandalosas, todas hijas de las Nigerwives, una asociacion de mujeres nacidas en el extranjero y casadas con hombres nigerianos. Sin embargo, sera Osita, su primo, con quien forje el vinculo mas profundo. Lleno de vida y mas experimentado que Vivek, Osita oculta tras una fachada burlona de seguridad en si mismo una vida privada que no comparte con nadie. A medida que su relacion se vaya estrechando y Osita luche por comprender la crisis creciente de Vivek, el misterio estallara de forma sorprendente.Adictiva, vertiginosa y repleta de personajes inolvidables, La muerte de Vivek Oji es una magistral novela que indaga en la familia y la amistad, en las fronteras de la identidad personal, social y de genero y en el modo en que el colonialismo infecta a personas y paises. Un asombroso relato sobre la perdida, la libertad y la transcendencia que conmovera a quien lo lea.

En la ciudad de Lucille ya no queda ningún monstruo, o eso les enseñan a los niños. Jam ha crecido con esta lección. Pero cuando conoce a Mascota, una criatura hecha de cuernos y colores y garras que surge de uno de los cuadros de su madre y de una gota de sangre, la joven debera reconsiderar todas sus creencias, porque Mascota ha venido a cazar un monstruo. Jam debera luchar para proteger a sus seres queridos y descubrir la verdad, pero ¿como vas a salvar el mundo de los monstruos si nadie reconoce que existen? Mascota, de le escritore nigeriane Akwaeke Emezi, es una novela poetica que mezcla la ciencia ficcion con la fantasia para hablar sobre quienes son los verdaderos monstruos en una sociedad aparentemente utopica.

Extraordinaria ópera prima de Akwaeke Emezi, Agua dulce indaga en la experiencia de vivir con un yo fracturado. Ada es una niña nigeriana, que por haber nacido “con un pie en el otro lado”, acoge en

One of Stylists Best Memoirs for Summer 2021Unlike anything Ive read . . . Remarkable.Roxane GayA thing of great beauty. Paris ReviewIn letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a nonhuman: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the grueling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself.The result is a Black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity.An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. New York Times

«A menudo me pregunto si morí de la mejor manera posible».Una tarde, en una ciudad del sureste de Nigeria, una madre abre la puerta de su casa y se encuentra el cuerpo de su hijo, envuelto en tela de

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They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one family's struggle to understand their child, just as Vivek learns to recognize himself. Teeming with unforgettable characters whose lives have been shaped by Vivek's gentle and enigmatic spirit, it shares with us a Nigerian childhood that challenges expectations. This novel, and its celebration of the innocence and optimism of youth will touch all those who embrace it.

They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one family's struggle to understand their child, just as Vivek learns to recognize himself. Teeming with unforgettable characters whose lives have been shaped by Vivek's gentle and enigmatic spirit, it shares with us a Nigerian childhood that challenges expectations. This novel, and its celebration of the innocence and optimism of youth will touch all those who embrace it.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEAstonishing.StylistElectrifying.O: The Oprah MagazineBrilliant and heartbreaking.Marie ClairePropulsive and resonant.EsquireThey burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her sons body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Viveks birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one familys struggle to understand their child, just as Vivek learns to recognize himself.Teeming with unforgettable characters whose lives have been shaped by Viveks gentle and enigmatic spirit, it shares with us a Nigerian childhood that challenges expectations. This novel, and its celebration of the innocence and optimism of youth will touch all those who embrace it.

Completely blew me away. Daisy Johnson, author of Everything UnderOne of the most dazzling debuts Ive ever read. Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must GoIm urging everyone to read it. Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water CureAda has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry. Their troubled child begins to develop separate selves and is prone to fits of anger and grief.When Ada grows up and heads to college in America, a traumatic event crystallises the selves into something more powerful. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind, these alters - now protective, now hedonistic - take control, shifting her life in a dangerous direction.

Shes landed in the perfect place . . . to fall for the wrong man.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNOMINATED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR ROMANCEA ZOELLA BOOK CLUB PICKA summer mustStylistGripping from page one VogueRaunchy, sad and upliftingGraziaTHE book of hot girl summerBustleHave you fallen for this INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING novelists sizzling hot entrance into the world of romance?Its the opportunity of a lifetime:Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape the Citys blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new. . .The only problem is, shes falling for the one man she absolutely cant have.A must read for all romance lovers@between2books_Emezi is a dream of a writer. My heart soared and shook and panted.BOLU BABALOLAA scorching tale of love after loss.KirkusReviews

A Lucille ja no hi ha monstres, això diuen als nens. La Jam ha crescut amb aquesta lliçó ben apresa. Però quan troba la Mascota, un ésser emplomallat amb banyes i urpes esmolades, es veu obligada a q

We had done and survived unimaginable things. Our world was so much bigger than our town, the river full of crocodiles, and these forests wed grown up in. There was an entire sea out there to prove it.Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same person: they finish each others sentences and make each other whole. When the twins come of age, their magical gifts begin to develop, but while Jayaikes powers enchant, Somadinas cause fear to ripple through her town.Always an outsider, Somadina now faces blatant - and dangerous - hostility. And things go from bad to worse when her brother, the one person she trusted, vanishes. Somadina knows that no matter the dangers, she must track him down. Even if it means entering the Sacred Forest. Even if it means gruelling, otherworldly travel she may not survive. Even if it means finding the hidden places where those closest to the spirit world dont dare to go.Does Somadina have the strength - within both her body and her soul - for the trying journey ahead?Sunday Times bestseller Akwaeke Emezi masterfully weaves a tale of identity, family, and the power of the past, in a world where the extraordinary is ordinary.

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She's landed in the perfect place . . . to fall for the wrong man.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNOMINATED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR ROMANCEA ZOELLA BOOK CLUB PICK'A summer must' Stylist'Gripping from page one' Vogue'Raunchy, sad and uplifting' Grazia'THE book of hot girl summer' Bustle

Akwaeke Emezi's exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a heady weekend which will brutally upend all of their lives.When Kalu drops Aima at Lagos Airport, it marks the end of their fouryear relationship. Shattered and broken open, he thinks that's the last he will see of his girlfriend. But Aima is drawn back into the city to the scandalous, decadent nightlife of her best friend.As Kalu grieves, his friend offers him an exclusive invitation to one of his sordid, global par

The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize. They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son''s body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek''s birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one family''s struggle to understand their child, just as Vivek learns to recognize himself.Teeming with unforgettable characters whose lives have been shaped by Vivek''s gentle and enigmatic spirit, it shares with us a Nigerian childhood that challenges expectations. This novel, and its celebration of the innocence and optimism of youth will touch all those who embrace it.

L’Ada és una noia nigeriana amb un caràcter turbulent i volàtil que emigra als Estats Units per estudiar. Sembla una noia com les altres, però la seva ment està poblada per presències fosques i ances