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Say you're one of them [electronic resource] / Uwem Akpan.
This singular collection of five stories takes the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316032520 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0316032522 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.) : map
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Description based on print version record B002NGMAG6 (Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)) |
| Formatted Contents Note: | An ex-mas feast -- Fattening for Gabon -- What language is that? -- Luxurious hearses -- My parents' bedroom. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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| Subject: | Children > Africa > Fiction. Short stories, Nigerian. War victims > Fiction. Nigerian fiction > 21 st century. |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
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Uwem Akpan was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in southern Nigeria. After studying philosophy and English at Creighton and Gonzaga universities, he studied theology for three years at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. "My Parents' Bedroom," a story from his short story collection, Say You're One of Them, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007.
Say You're One of Them won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. In 2007, Akpan taught at a Jesuit college in Harare, Zimbabwe. Now he serves at Christ the King Church, Ilasamaja-Lagos, Nigeria.
Say You're One of Them won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. In 2007, Akpan taught at a Jesuit college in Harare, Zimbabwe. Now he serves at Christ the King Church, Ilasamaja-Lagos, Nigeria.
