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Welcome to Lagos / Chibundu Onuzo.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.O53548 W45 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Onuzo, Chibundu, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Desertion, Military.
- Armed Forces--Officers.
- Lagos (Nigeria)--Fiction.
- Lagos (Nigeria).
- Nigeria--Lagos.
- Armed Forces--Officers--Fiction.
- Armed Forces.
- Desertion, Military--Fiction.
- Life change events--Fiction.
- Life change events.
- Local Subjects:
- Lagos (Nigeria)--Fiction.
- Life change events--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Catapult, [2018]
- Summary:
- "When the army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandel involving Nigeria's education minister, Chike becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a different kind of life. Among them are Fineboy, a fighter with a rebel group, desperate to pursue his dream of becoming a radio DJ; Isoken, a sixteen-year-old girl whose father is thought to have been killed by rebels; and the beautiful Oma, escaping a wealthy, abusive husband. Welcome to Lagos is a high-spirited novel about aspirations and escape, innocence and corruption. Full of humor and heart, it offers a provocative portrait of contemporary Nigeria that marks the arrival in the United States of an extraordinary young writer."--Jacket.
- Notes:
- Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Faber & Faber.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781936787807
- 1936787806
- 1936787814
- 9781936787814
- OCLC:
- 1032261693
- Publisher Number:
- 99976967758
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