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  • The Secret History of Las Vegas

    A Novel

    de Chris Abani ...
    A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris AbaniBefore he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he’s sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr. Sunil ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • GraceLand

    A Novel

    de Chris Abani ...
    A teenage Elvis impersonator navigates the Lagos ghetto in this "searing chronicle of a young man's coming of age in Nigeria during the late 1970s" ( Publishers Weekly).Elvis Oke dreams of escaping the sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria. Beset by poverty, floods, and beatings by his alcoholic father, he ekes out a living by impersonating his famous namesake. But soon he is ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Virgin of Flames

    A Novel

    de Chris Abani ...
    From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of AngelsPraised as singular (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and extraordinary (The New York Times Book Review), GraceLand stunned critics and instantly established Chris Abani as an exciting new voice in fiction. In his second novel, set against the uncompromising landscape of East L.A., Abani ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Song for Night

    de Chris Abani ...
    "A devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away."— Los Angeles TimesPart Inferno, part Paradise Lost, part Sunjata epic, Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier's terrifying yet oddly beautiful journey through a nightmare landscape of brutal war in search of his lost platoon. The mute ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Face

    Cartography of the Void

    de Chris Abani ...
    DescriptionIn The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed poet, novelist, and screenwriter Chris Abani has given us a brief memoir that is, in the best tradition of the genre, also an exploration of the very nature of identity. Abani meditates on his own face, beginning with his early childhood that was immersed in the Igbo culture of West Africa. The Face is a lush work of art that teems with ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Smoking the Bible

    de Chris Abani ...
    An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible.Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick with feeling, shaped by Chris Abani’s astounding command of form and metaphor. These poems reveal the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Kalakuta Republic

    de Chris Abani ...
    This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s.Abani vividly describes the characters that peopled this dark world, from prison inmates such as John James, tortured to death at the age of fourteen, to the general overseers. First published after his release from jail in ... Leer más

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  • Becoming Abigail

    A Novella

    de Chris Abani ...
    A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand.—A New York Times Editors' Choice"Moody, lyrical prose reminiscent of Toni Morrison's Beloved . . . Though the fictional Abigail exists only on the pages of Abani's novella, her character will seize the imagination of everyone who reads her story." — Essence Magazine" Becoming Abigail, a spare yet voluptuous tale ... Leer más

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  • Chris Abani

    de Annalisa Oboe, Elisa Bordin ...
    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    This is the first full-length book on the work of ‘global Igbo’ writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani’s fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song for Night (2007), the three novels GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), which are read against the grain of Abani’s most important essays and ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Dog Woman

    de Chris Abani ...
    Chris Abani's Dog Woman is a mesmerizing, haunting, and sometimes subversive exploration of the personal and cultural politics of disempowerment and power. In these heart rousing and lyrically complex poems, the poet enacts the reconstruction of his feminized selves, and his personae struggle to re-form and transform both themselves and the difficult worlds they inhabit. At turns, earthy, ... Leer más

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  • Hands Washing Water

    de Chris Abani ...
    “Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.”—PrideHands Washing Water is Chris Abani's fourth poetry collection—a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, “Buffalo Women,” is a Civil War correspondence between lovers that plays on our assumptions about war, gender, morality, and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Sanctificum

    de Chris Abani ...
    “Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal“Stunning poems.” —New HumanistA self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris Abani bravely travels into the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD