The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa [electronic resource] : 'Ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster' - Guardian

Stephen Buoro2023

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** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2023 ** ' A voice unlike any other' OBSERVER 'I fell in love immediately' MAX PORTER 'A writer of imagination and flair' ECONOMIST 'S mart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking ' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'Buoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes ' THE TIMES Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. 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, the reluctantly nicknamed 'Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, de...