Looking for Bono
$33.34
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2020
Summary
A sparkling satire on international aid and celebrity, Looking for Bono charts one man’s accidental quest to bring water to his community.
Baba is a semi-literate man living a simple life centered on the local auto repair shop in Palemo. His days revolve around finding his next meal and an obsession with his disinterested, Nollywood star-wannabe wife Munira and her voluptuous body. Baba is acutely aware of the water corruption that has left him, on occasion, without so much as a drop …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913090227 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913090221 |
| Author: | Abidemi Sanusi |
| Publisher: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Imprint: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Twenty in 2020 |
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Looking for Bono may seem like a novel full of hijinks: there’s a scene involving a domestic helper which is straight out of a Carry On film… However it goes much deeper. Other than the theme of media manipulation, the book also focuses on abuse, corruption and social class. * Robert Pisani, The Bobsphere Blog *
About The Author
Abidemi Sanusi
Abidemi Sanusi is the author of Kemi’s Journal, her first work of fiction, and Zack’s Story of Life, Love and Everything. Her most recent novel, Eyo, was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She was educated in England where she attended Leeds University. She has worked as a human rights worker and is now working on her own writing.
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