Name: The Bead Collector (en Inglés)
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Author: Sefi Atta
ISBN: 9781623719623

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Interlink Pub Group Inc

Autor

Sefi Atta

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

376

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781623719623

N° edición

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

The Bead Collector (en Inglés)

Sefi Atta (Autor) · Interlink Pub Group Inc · Tapa Blanda

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A new novel from Wole Soyinka Prize-winning author of Everything Good Will Come. New in paperback Lagos, January 1976, six years after the Nigerian Civil War. A new military regime has been in power for six months, but rumors are spreading that a countercoup is imminent. At an art exhibition in the affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, Remi Lawal, a Nigerian woman who runs her own greeting-card shop, meets Frances Cooke, who introduces herself as an American art dealer, in Nigeria to buy rare beads. They become friends and over the next few weeks confide in each other about their aspirations, loyalties, marriage, motherhood and Nigeria itself, as hospitable Remi welcomes the enigmatic Frances into her world. Remi's husband, Tunde, naturally suspects Frances--like any American in Lagos--of gathering intelligence for the CIA, yet she is unconvinced. Cynical about the country's unending instability, and alienated by the shallowness of the city's elite, she willingly shares her views with Frances. But the February 13 assassination of General Muhammed prompts Remi to reconsider one particular conversation with her new acquaintance in a different light. Her discouragement overcome by a reawakened sense of patriotism, she begins to doubt that the bead collector is who she claims to be. With her signature subtlety and wit, Sefi Atta recasts the international espionage tale by bringing the intrigue and politics of family life to the fore. The story of a brief friendship, The Bead Collector reveals one Nigerian mothers yearning--amid legacies of conflict and uncertainty--to help build her country from home.