Speak No Evil
$24.33
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2019
Summary
‘Elegant and elegiac’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Guardian
‘A writer of spectacular talent’ Observer
On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer - an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except his best friend, Meredith - the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719523908 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719523907 |
| Author: | Uzodinma Iweala |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read - Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure
A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala’s characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction - Larissa MacFarquharSpeak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you - Marlon JamesStunning - VogueA quietly tragic triumph - Financial TimesElegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power - GuardianUzodinma Iweala … reminds his readers of the underlying humanity of his characters, whatever their heritage, race, or sexuality - TLSElegant and elegiac - BooksellerAbout The Author
Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala received the 2006 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Beasts of No Nation. In 2007, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he lives in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.
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