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The virgin of flames

Author: Christopher Abani
Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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For Black, a mural artist in East L A, the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above 'The Ugly Store', he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Abani
ISBN: 9780224081627 0224081624
OCLC Number: 163615305
Description: 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Chris Abani.

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In depicting how deeply external politics can affect internal thinking, "GraceLand" announces itself as a worthy heir to Chinua Achebes "Things Fall Apart," Like that classic of Nigerian literature, Read more...

 
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