Research Catalog

Title

Lagos noir / edited by Chris Abani.

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Abani, Chris

Description

217 pages : map; 22 cm.

Summary

"Lagos has, like many coastal cities, a very checkered and noir past. It is the largest city in Nigeria and its former capital. It is also the largest megacity on the African continent, with a population approximating twenty-one million, and by itself is the fourth-largest economy in Africa ... It is rumored that there are more canals in Lagos than in Venice. Except in Lagos they are often unintentional. Gutters that have become waterways and lagoons fenced in by stilt homes or full of logs for a timber industry most of us don't know exists. All of it skated by canoes as slick as any dragonfly. There are currently no moonlight or other gondola rides available ... The thirteen stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of "noir" fiction, but each one of them fully captures the essence of noir, the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city's streets, alleys, and waterways ... Together, these stories create an unchartered path through the center of Lagos and out to its peripheries, revealing so much more truth at the heart of this tremendous city than any guidebook, TV show, film, or book you are likely to find."--

Series Statement

Akashic noir series

Uniform Title

Akashic noir series.

Subject

• Poor > Nigeria > Lagos > Fiction
• Wealth > Nigeria > Lagos > Fiction
• Authors, Black > Nigeria > Lagos > Literary collections
• Noir fiction, Nigerian (English)
• Lagos (Nigeria) > Fiction
• Lagos (Nigeria) > Social conditions > Fiction
• Lagos (Nigeria) > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Lagos (Nigeria) > Corrupt practices > Fiction
• Nigeria
• Nigeria > Lagos

Genre/Form

• Noir fiction.
• Short stories.
• Detective and mystery fiction.
• Fiction.

Contents

Part I: Cops & robbers. What they did that night / Jude Dibia -- Heaven's gate / Chika Unigwe -- Showlogo / Nnedi Okorafor -- Just ignore and try to endure / A. Igoni Barrett -- Part II: In a family way. The swimming pool / Sara Ladipo Manyika -- What are you going to do? / Adebola Rayo -- For baby, for three / Onyinye Ihezukwu -- Eden / Uche Okonkwo -- Joy / Wale Lawal -- Part III: Arrivals & departures. Choir boy / 'Pemi Aguda -- The walking stick / E.C. Osundu -- Uncle Sam / Leye Adenle -- Killer ape / Chris Abani.

Call Number

Sc D 22-

ISBN

• 1617755230
• 9781617755231

LCCN

2017956557

OCLC

1007756584

Title

Lagos noir / edited by Chris Abani.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Akashic noir series

Akashic noir series.

Added Author

Abani, Chris, editor, author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-