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God's Children Are Little Broken Things

Arinze Ifeakandu

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In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most promising young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux. 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, where she must 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. 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.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9781399606288
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Queer love and identity in NigeriaFamily and generational conflictComing of age

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