Blackass

Blackass
A Igoni Barrett
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
7 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780099587446
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White skin, green eyes, red hair - black ass. Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. The city transforms beneath his feet as the dead ends of his life open out wondrously before him. The world, it seems, is his oyster - except for one thing: despite his radical transformation, his ass remains robustly black...Funny, fierce, inventive and daringly provocative - this is a very modern satire, with a sting in the tail.
"It is the funniest, most engaging badass book I've read in years. You should read this book and enjoy freshly minted scintillating prose rioting with each other - it is a lush canvas of ideas, humor and vision. Blackass is fresh, contemporary writing without even trying; this is how fiction should be written in the 21st century." Whats On Africa, Royal African Society "Gripping... This is a memorable, richly allusive story, skillfully interweaving thoughts from Kafka to the poet Elizabeth Bishop. Barrett probes not only the surface but the depths of who we are" -- Anita Sethi Observer "Wonderfully imagined, and very funny... a dazzling first novel by one of Africa's best young writers" -- Kate Saunders The Times "As well as being a fable about race and identity, Blackass is in large part a love letter to Lagos... For Barrett, race is inevitably one part of a person's identity, but it is one that asserts itself principally through the eyes of others, through how they "read" those they encounter. People will inevitably discuss this book, and Barrett's work in general, in the context of a resurgent Nigerian literary scene that includes writers such as Teju Cole, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila. But, to read him only as a Nigerian writer would be to do him a disservice. For Blackass is a strange, compelling novel, and Barrett has something to tell us all." -- Jon Day Financial Times "A bold riff on Kafka's Metamorphosis... Igoni Barrett's greatest asset is his ability to satirise the ridiculous extents people, especially Lagosians, go to in order to appear important. His characters' every foible is captured and amplified for effect." -- Helon Habila Guardian
A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780099587446
Published: 7 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 224

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