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A Life Elsewhere

By: Segun Afolabi

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Winner of the 2005 Caine Prize for African Writing, this collection of stories reflect the way we live; exploring the universal need to establish family and identity in a world where the boundaries of geography, culture and language are fluid. These are tales of Diaspora, of people making their lives in new lands.

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0224076027

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9780224076029

Goodbye Lucille

By: Segun Afolabi

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Goodbye Lucille

By: Segun Afolabi

Winner of the 2008 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award It's Berlin; sometime in the 1980s. Vincent is an overweight, vaguely unhappy photographer who lives in a small flat in a house owned by a demented landlady. His neighbours and friends include an ex-marine transsexual escort girl, an East European refugee, a Nigerian playboy and various 'artistic types'. Vincent misses Lucille, the girl he left behind in London; he has not spoken to his adoptive father for years and resents his older brother's success. He isn't doing very much at all. Then a chance encounter in a bar, the murder of a local politician and an urgent letter from his aunt shake up his world and Vincent finally has to stop slacking and take some control. Building on themes explored in his collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere, Afolabi presents a Germany of immigrants and insiders both. This is a moving novel about the personal politics of identity and a gentle exploration of the nature of true love.

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322

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Random House

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1407091131

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9781407091136

Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015

By: Segun Afolabi,Elnathan John,F. T. Kola,Masande Ntshanga,Namwali Serpell

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Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015

By: Segun Afolabi,Elnathan John,F. T. Kola,Masande Ntshanga,Namwali Serpell

Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2015 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, which took place in April 2015.

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191

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New Internationalist

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1780262299

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9781780262291

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A Life Elsewhere

A Life Elsewhere

Goodbye Lucille

Goodbye Lucille

Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015

Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015

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