{"product_id":"9781526638021-five-sorrowful-mysteries-of-andy-africa","title":"The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** AN  \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA voice unlike any other’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I fell in love immediately’ \u003c\/b\u003eMAX PORTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e writer of imagination and flair’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘S\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003eKAMILA SHAMSIE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Buoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls – especially blondes – and wondering who his father is. When he’s not in church, at school or attempting to form ‘Africa’s first superheroes’, he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed ‘Andy Africa’ soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, despite his mother’s denials, to be Andy’s father, and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church – both set to shake the foundations of everything Andy knows and loves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa\u003c\/i\u003e announces a dazzling, distinctive, new literary voice. Profound, exhilarating and highly original, this tragicomic novel is a stunning exploration of the contemporary African ‘condition’, the relentless infiltration of Western culture and, most of all, the ordinary but impossible challenges of coming of age in a turbulent world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40884344881249,"sku":"9781526638021","price":14.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34007824.jpg?v=1753427463","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526638021-five-sorrowful-mysteries-of-andy-africa","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}