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God's Children Are Little Broken Things

God's Children Are Little Broken Things

Winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize

by Arinze Ifeakandu
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/08/2023

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These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria.

A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter returns home to Lagos after the death of her father, forced to face her past - and future -relationship with his longtime partner. A young musician rises to fame at the risk of losing himself, and the man who loves him.

Generations collide, families break and are remade, languages and cultures intertwine, and lovers find their ways to futures; from childhood through adulthood; on university campuses, city centres, and neighbourhoods where church bells mingle with the morning call to prayer.

ISBN:
9781399606271
9781399606271
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-08-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
196x129x19mm
Weight:
0.2kg

 'Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. A brilliant new talent'
DAMON GALGUT, Booker Prize winning author of The Promise

'Contemporary love stories with moments of real surprise and revelation'
BRANDON TAYLOR, author of Real Life

'Gorgeous... This is a hugely impressive collection, full of subtlety, wisdom and heart'
SARAH WATERS author of Fingersmith

'Captures the tenderness and tumult of queer love, familial love, self-love, and the many ways love elates and eludes us.... What a glorious collection!'
DEESHA PHILYAW, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Arinze Ifeakandu

Arinze Ifeakandu was born in Kano, Nigeria. An AKO Caine Prize for African Writing finalist and A Public Space Writing Fellow, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is pursuing his PhD at Florida State University.

His work has appeared in A Public Space, One Story, and Guernica.

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