Eloghosa Osunde
Vagabonds!
Vagabonds!
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VAGABONDS! is a novel by Eloghosa Osunde that explores the lives of marginalized people in Lagos, Nigeria, and the spirits that command the city. It is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous tale of oppression and defiance.
Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Gasp in wonder Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf
‘Electrifying Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch’
‘Gasp-inducing AnOther’
‘Joyous, defiant Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water’
‘Visionary Guardian VAGABONDS!’ is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos.
Lagos is a city for all . . . you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and its just as much their city as it is yours.
Èkó, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the ‘vagabonds powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced, and the footloose.
With Tatafo as our guide, we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a driver for a debauched politician; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her reality. As their lives begin to intertwine – in markets and underground clubs, in churches and hotel rooms – the vagabonds are seized and challenged by the spirits who command the city. A force is drawing them all together, but for what purpose?
In her debut novel, VAGABONDS! , Eloghosa Osunde tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian capitalism, corruption, and oppression, and offers a defiant, joyous, and inventive tribute to all those for whom life itself is a form of resistance.
‘Every year promises the birth of the next literary superstar… VAGABONDS! is an exceptional debut i-D’
‘Dazzling, haunting, angular and funny TLS’
‘If you read one debut novel … this should be it Los Angeles Times’
‘Gasp-inducing … captures the lives of outsiders with spirit and tenderness AnOther.’
Weight: 428g
Dimension: 144 x 223 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008498016
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