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Little Rot (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525541639)
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Akwaeke Emezi
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xNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY HARPER'S BAZAAR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BOOKPAGE AND MORE! "Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger in their entertaining latest...readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here."-Publishers Weekly A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.
Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city's corrupt and glittering underworld, they're all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them.
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
ISBN-10: 0525541632
ISBN-13: 9780525541639
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2024 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 04/08/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 19
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.
Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city's corrupt and glittering underworld, they're all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them.
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
ISBN-10: 0525541632
ISBN-13: 9780525541639
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2024 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 04/08/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 19
By Akwaeke Emezi
xAkwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book; Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award; and most recently, Content Warning: Everything, their debut poetry collection; Bitter, their second young adult novel; and You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, their debut romance novel. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on the cover of Time as a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.
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