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Main : Africa, fiction
ISBN: 9781876756994 233 x 127 mm
A Bit of Difference
Sefi Atta
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At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity. When her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her father’s five-year memorial service, she finds herself turning her scrutiny inward. In Nigeria, Deola encounters changes in her family and in the urban landscape of her home, and new acquaintances who offer unexpected possibilities. Deola’s journey is as much about evading others’ expectations to get to the heart of her frustration as it is about exposing the differences between foreign images of Africa and the realities of contemporary Nigerian life.
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Awards
Longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2016
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Everything about this novel is real and tangible; it’s a truthful and deeply thoughtful portrait of the contemporary African diaspora – corruption, crime, bigotry, Aids and malaria versus cultural disassociation and ingrained, but ignored, racism. Lucy Scholes, The National
Atta...delivers on the promise of her well-received early work with this breakout which is at once an American successor to classic Nigerian literature and a commentary on how the English-speaking world reads Africa...Wholly believable, especially in its nuanced approach to racial identity, the story feels extremely modern while excelling at the novelist’s traditional task: finding the common reality between strangers and rendering alien circumstances familiar. Publishers Weekly
This book is an example of the rewards of small moments and understated expression...Sefi Atta deserves attention, both for what she says and for how she says it. David Maine, Pop Matters
Table of Contents
Reorientation
Actually
Foreign Capitals
The Business of Humanitarianism
Sidestep
For Good
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Sefi Atta author of 'A Bit of Difference' speaking at the launch of her book at the Melbourne Writers Festival
