Blackass

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<p><b>White skin, green eyes, red hair...</b></p><p>Furo Wariboko born and bred in Lagos wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo finds the dead ends of his life open out before him. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster except for one thing: despite his radical transformation, Furo's ass remains robustly black . . .</p><p>Funny, fierce, inventive and daringly provocative this is a very modern satire, with a sting in the tail.</p>

Autorenportrait

<i>A. Igoni Barrett</i>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. His short story collection,<i>Love is Power</i>,<i>or Something Like That</i>, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40.<i>Blackass</i>is his first novel.

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