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Heroes and Others by Femi Olugbile (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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Brilliantly crafted, finely wrought and enacted with an ironic poise, this is the work of a master storyteller in full flight. Olugbile writes with the wit and assurance of an ancient African griot leveraged by the penetrating insights and psychological sophistication of a table psychiatrist of the modern African condition. The results are stories that are at once folksy and wonderfully entertaining, but also deeply instructive and occasionally disturbing. There is a hint of Freudian sexual neurosis in all the stories: from the young man who will never kw who his real father was to the reader who will never be sure whether infidelity is consummated. Sometimes the reader is hurried along only to be confronted by a partially deted social innuendo, and sometimes the fast-paced plot ends in dramatic deflation. Olugbile writes with compassion and empathy for the follies of our time but also lances the social boil with the precision and calm detachment of a surgeon wielding the scalpel. Honed to perfection like a precious stone in the hands of a master lapidarist, these stories are destined to become classics of the genre and an important addition to modern African literature.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Hoofbeatdotcom
ISBN-10
9785082962
ISBN-13
9789785082968
eBay Product ID (ePID)
191213287

Product Key Features

Author
Femi Olugbile
Format
Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies

Additional Product Features

Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
31/10/2013
Imprint
Hoofbeatdotcom
Country of Publication
United States

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