Лучшие книги Cиприан Эквенcи

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"'

Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Один из основоположников современной нигерийской прозы Киприан Эквенси посвящает свой новый роман событиям недавнего прошлого - гражданской войне в Нигерии с сепаратистами Биафры. Став свидетелем распада военной машины сепаратистов и трагедии народа, заплатившего тысячами жизней за политиканство лидеров, радиожурналист Одуго приходит к осознанию аморальности и бессмысленности этой братоубийственной бойни.

When People of the City was first published in 1954, it was immediately acclaimed as the first major novel in English by a West African to be widely read throughout the English-speaking world. It tells of the story of a young crime reporter who doubles as a dance bandleader in a large West African city - and eventually relishes that what he can do for the developing country he lives in is more important than the varied personal pleasures he can find in the hectic life of the city.

Одно из крупнейших произведений нигерийской прозы.

(Нигерия)