- Publisher: Verve
- Year: 2025
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9780857309013
- Product code: 546898
A Kind of Madness
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For fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, this striking debut collection set in contemporary Nigeria explores the private forms madness can take, from a mother’s pursuit of status to a pickpocket’s howl of hunger. Dark, funny and humane, these stories reveal lives shaped by longing, pressure and survival.
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A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everyday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection.
Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more. Brimming with vitality, these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more.
Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more. Brimming with vitality, these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more.
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For fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, this striking debut collection set in contemporary Nigeria explores the private forms madness can take, from a mother’s pursuit of status to a pickpocket’s howl of hunger. Dark, funny and humane, these stories reveal lives shaped by longing, pressure and survival.
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