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The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
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The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
Narrado por:
Jude Owusu
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Narrado por:
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Jude Owusu
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Stephen Buoro
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
Shortlisted for the 2024 Betty Trask Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize
“This novel shimmers.” —NPR “Best Books of the Year”
“Funny, vulgar, and wrenching.”—New York Magazine
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his friends, fantasizing about white girls. When he’s not in church, at school, or attempting to form “Africa’s first superheroes,” he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of Black power, and HXVX: the Curse of Africa.
Sure enough, Andy soon falls for the first blonde he sees. But multiple crises are looming, set to shake the foundations of everything he knows and loves . . .
Crackling with energy and intelligence, this tragicomic novel of contemporary African life announces an astounding new talent.
“A writer of imagination and flair . . . Andy Africa is an unforgettable character.” —The Economist
“A voice unlike any other.” —Observer
“I fell in love immediately.” —Max Porter©2022 Stephen Buoro (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Animated by a lively voice and a spiritual vision, Buoro’s novel . . . unfolds a touching critique of the false promise of Western transcendence.
This novel shimmers with the wit and desires of a 15-year-old who doesn’t fully grasp how complex his family and country are and who isn’t yet mature enough to make good decisions.
Buoro is a writer of imagination and flair . . . For its sheer energy, [Andy Africa] is among the best.
A literary blockbuster.
Funny and poignant.
Enthrals . . . Punchy . . . The vivid immediacy of Buoro’s prose is transporting . . . There is swagger and humility in Buoro’s writing, which blends the bluster of a teenage boy who knows he’s a “loud smartass” with the diffidence of someone who knows his country is broken . . . When, near the end of the book, Zahrah tells Andy, “You’ve got a huge interesting life ahead of you,” she could be talking about Buoro, whose writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes.
A heart wrenching coming-of-age story … This debut novel grapples with identity and contemporary African life all through its beautiful prose.
A debut from a sharp new voice . . . Stephen Buoro’s first novel is funny, vulgar, and wrenching.
A compelling but never boring portrait . . . Written in an obscene, colloquial style reminiscent of Junot Diaz and Sherman Alexie, the novel is funny, raucous, and most devastating.
Craft and verve abound in this tragicomic coming-of-age debut fueled by the lapel-grabbing voice of its 15-year-old narrator, Andy . . . Both sweet and sour, it offers a family story, a thwarted romance and a story of friendship . . . A multi-level success, attuned to political and cultural complexity, but bright and breezy reading with it.
Hilarious and heartbreaking and full of surprises.
A barnstorming, heartbreaking debut . . . Tackling the perils of carving out a unique identity in a world of carnage and confusion, in the shadow of colonialism, this assured, engaging book, will make you fall in love with teenager Andy Aziza, and will undoubtedly make a star of Stephen Buoro.
Andy Africa is not your usual coming-of-age story . . . Buoro is a writer who can blend humor and big ideas.
[The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa] is as much a coming-of-age story for its protagonist as it is a portrait of Nigeria’s grim reality of postcolonial reckoning.
The characters . . . glitter off the page fully formed and irresistible. I’m always hoping, when reading fiction, for something audacious and formally interesting and this novel was a refreshing example of that.
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