Ghostroots: Stories
Title | Ghostroots: Stories PDF eBook |
Author | 'Pemi Aguda |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1324065869 |
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before. In “Manifest,” a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter’s face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In “Breastmilk,” a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she is unable to produce milk for her newborn, she blames herself for failing to uphold her mother’s feminist values and doubts her fitness for motherhood. In “Things Boys Do,” a trio of fathers finds something unnatural and unnerving about their infant sons. As their lives rapidly fall to pieces, they begin to fear that their sons are the cause of their troubles. And in “24, Alhaji Williams Street,” a teenage boy lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease that’s killing the boys on his street. These and other stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy and glinting with humor, they announce a major new literary talent.
Ghostroots
Title | Ghostroots PDF eBook |
Author | 'Pemi Aguda |
Publisher | Virago Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-03-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780349018249 |
The Family Ghost and Other Stories
Title | The Family Ghost and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ruskin Bond |
Publisher | |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788171701780 |
The Empty House
Title | The Empty House PDF eBook |
Author | Algernon Blackwood |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2012-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781407787411 |
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Ghost Lineage and Other Stories
Title | Ghost Lineage and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Eric John Sandve |
Publisher | |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A fiction collection including shorts stories and a selection of chapters from two novels.
Stories
Title | Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Satyajit Ray |
Publisher | Harvill Secker |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The Stories Range Widly In Time, Content And Milieu, Including Several About The Raj. Translated From Bengal.
Native Ghost Stories
Title | Native Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Darren Zenko |
Publisher | Ghost House Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9781894877763 |
Additional keywords : Aboriginal peoples, First Nations.