Love is Power or Something Like That

Zusatztext

<p><b>Where sex is a currency, or a weapon.</b> <b></b> <b>Where power ends in corruption, or violence.</b> <b></b> <b>Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes.</b></p><p><b>Where love is power, or something like that.</b></p><p>In these nine blistering stories cavort jealous husbands, kissing cousins, teenage internet hustlers, democratic bus rides, home exorcisms and bowls of dubious catfish peppersoup: this is a searing, savage portrait of an utterly modern Nigeria.</p><p>Dark yet disarming, in prose that is tough, vigorous and immediately distinctive,<i>Love is Power, Or Something Like That</i>is a phenomenal short story collection from a palpably talented new writer.</p>

Autorenportrait

A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.

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