Ghostroots
Paperback
The most 'thrilling and disturbing' (Financial Times) literary horror of 2024
An electrifying, terrifying collection of literary horror stories from a prize-winning young star of Nigerian writing
A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD AND THE LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD; AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITINGA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY MAIL, ELLE, TIME MAGAZINE AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Thrilling and disturbing ... a triumph' Financial Times'Excellently uncanny' Daily Mail'Terrifying' TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 Exploring the dark borders between psychology and superstition, these feverishly imaginative stories of trauma, betrayal, terror and love lay bare the forces of myth, tradition, gender, sexuality and modernity in Nigerian society. Here are characters cursed by guilt, bound by the ties of ancestors and community; or enchanted by the allure of mysticism and would-be prophets. Powered by a deep empathy, and glinting with humour and insight, they announce a major new literary talent.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9780349018249
- Author: 'Pemi Aguda
- Pub date: 09.09.25
- RRP: $27.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
'Pemi Aguda
'Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the winner of the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers' Award and a graduate of the Zell MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in American Short Fiction, Granta, One Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope and The Best Short Stories 2022 and 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners, edited by Valeria Luiselli (2022) and Lauren Groff (2023), among other publications.
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