Walking On Cowrie Shells

Nana Nkweti

£10.99

‘Walking on Cowrie Shells’ focuses on the lives of hyphenated-Americans with a multi-cultural heritage in the United States and Africa. The book spans genres – literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction – and features complex, fully-embodied characters: tongue-tied linguistic anthropologists, comic book enthusiasts and even water goddesses. The author hopes her stories entertain readers while also offering them a counterpoint to prevalent ‘heart of darkness’ writing that too often depicts a singular ‘African’ experience plagued by locusts, hunger, and tribal in-fighting.

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ISBN: 9781911648277 Category: Tag:

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Weight 0.262 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

176

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

Description

Walking on Cowrie Shells focuses on the lives of hyphenated-Americans with a multi-cultural heritage in the United States and Africa. The book spans genres – literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction – and features complex, fully-embodied characters: tongue-tied linguistic anthropologists, comic book enthusiasts and even water goddesses. The author hopes her stories entertain readers while also offering them a counterpoint to prevalent ‘heart of darkness’ writing that too often depicts a singular ‘African’ experience plagued by locusts, hunger, and tribal in-fighting.

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