Uzodinma Iweala

En un país africà sense nom, el món d?un nen es transforma de cop. Quan la guerra civil arriba al poble de l?Agu, el seu pare li diu: «CORRE! CORRE! AGU, CORRE!». I l?Agu corre, però va a parar als b

Agu es un niño listo. Desde pequeño aprende a leer silenciosamente entre los brazos de su madre. Insiste a su padre que quiere ir a la escuela ; .... Pero Gloria no sólo lo admite en la escuela, sino que pronto le anima a estudiar para ir a la universidad. Seré el mejor médico o ingeniero, imagina Agu, alguien importante. Pero un dí la guerra irrrumpe en su vida con prisa y si explicaciones, lanzando a Agu a una pesadilla de violencia que contempla incrédulo desde sus ojos de niño. Sólo la fantasía, la amistad y el amor hacia su familia le permiten sobrevivir.

Niru goza de una vida aparentemente de ensueño. Se ha criado en Washington con unos padres solícitos, en su prestigioso instituto privado despunta como un estudiante brillante y un as del deporte, en otoño empezara la universidad en Harvard; la vida le sonrie. Pero Niru guarda un doloroso secreto: es homosexual, un pecado abominable para sus padres, nigerianos y muy conservadores. No lo sabe nadie salvo Meredith, su mejor amiga, hija de unas personalidades de Washington, y la unica persona que no lo juzga. Cuando su padre descubre accidentalmente que Niru es gay, las brutales repercusiones no tardan en llegar.

A stunning novel about a child-soldier in Africa that introduces a brilliant young writer and will be much discussed.

Niru goza de una vida aparentemente de ensueño. Se ha criado en Washington con unos padres solícitos, en su prestigioso instituto privado despunta como un estudiante brillante y un as del deporte, en otoño empezara la universidad en Harvard; la vida le sonrie. Pero Niru guarda un doloroso secreto: es homosexual, un pecado abominable para sus padres, nigerianos y muy conservadores. No lo sabe nadie salvo Meredith, su mejor amiga, hija de unas personalidades de Washington, y la unica persona que no lo juzga. Cuando su padre descubre accidentalmente que Niru es gay, las brutales repercusiones no tardan en llegar.

HIV/AIDS is more divisive and destructive than any other disease - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted. Award-winning novelist Uzodinma Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey around the African continent meeting individuals and communities that are struggling daily with the disease. He meets people from all walks of life, from sex workers to the truck drivers who frequent them; from the doctors and nurses who tend the sick; to the children orphaned by the illness and their adoptive families. He meets the wives of husbands with HIV and the husbands of wives with the virus. Beautifully written and heart-breakingly honest, Our Kind of People goes behind the headlines of this epidemic to show the real lives affected by it, illuminating the scope of the crisis and a continents desperate struggle.

Elegant and elegiac Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Guardian A writer of spectacular talentObserverOn the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, hes a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer - an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except his best friend, Meredith - the one person who seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally finds out, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding towards a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed. Speak No Evil is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURAA work of visceral urgency and power AMITAV GHOSHTotally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph ALI SMITH, GUARDIANAn extraordinary bookSUNDAY TELEGRAPHAgu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to fight the rebels. Run! shouts his father when the rebels arrive. And Agu does run. Straight into the rebels path.In a vivid, sparkling voice, Agu tells the story of what happens to him next. His story is shocking and painful, and completely unforgettable.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURAA work of visceral urgency and power AMITAV GHOSHTotally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph ALI SMITH, GUARDIANAn extraordinary bookSUNDAY TELEGRAPHAgu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to fight the rebels. Run! shouts his father when the rebels arrive. And Agu does run. Straight into the rebels path.In a vivid, sparkling voice, Agu tells the story of what happens to him next. His story is shocking and painful, and completely unforgettable.

From the award-winning author of Beasts of No Nation and Speak No Evil, an insightful and deeply relevant collection of essays about America on the 250th anniversary of its founding.Known for his piercing understanding of race in America, Uzodinma Iweala delivers a concise collection of essays which explore how race affects all our lives, most notably today amid rising bigotry and a raging culture war. A Black American of Nigerian descent now living abroad, Iweala is a medical doctor as well as a novelist, and he brings together his gifts for analysis and literary narrative in this thought-provoking and meaningful work. Reflecting on the last decade, Iweala offers insights into the history of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as other fraught topics, including abortion, health care, sexuality, immigration, and politics.. Powerful and informed, mature in outlook and devastating in clarity and truth, the essays in The United States of Ambivalence capture the doubt, conflict, and uncertainty of being an American today.