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The death of Vivek Oji

Emezi, Akwaeke2021
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They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. 'The Death of Vivek Oji' transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one family's struggle to understand their child, just as Vivek learns to recognize himself.
Main title:
The death of Vivek Oji / Akwaeke Emezi.
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2021.London : Faber, 2021.
Collation:
248 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2020.
ISBN:
9780571351008 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2460502
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