Description
‘Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating originality and intense drama’ Bernardine Evaristo
‘Dazzling . . . A feast for the senses’ Diana Evans
Winner of the AKO Cain Prize
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In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . .
A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs.
A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator.
Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning.
And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time.
Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal.
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PRAISE FOR IRENOSEN OKOJIE
‘One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge in many a year’
ALEX WHEATLE MBE
‘Okojie has a sharp eye for the twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches from elegance to brutality in a single line’
STELLA DUFFY