Nudibranch : the collection from MBE for Literature recipient Irenosen Okojie

Author: Okojie, Irenosen

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 12 November 2020 by Dialogue (Dialogue Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 272 pages
127 x 197 x 20 | 212g

‘Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating originality and intense drama’ Bernardine Evaristo ‘Dazzling . . . A feast for the senses’ Diana EvansWinner of the AKO Cain PrizeIn this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . . A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs. A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator. Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning.

And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time. Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal.

PRAISE FOR IRENOSEN OKOJIE ‘One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge in many a year’ALEX WHEATLE MBE’Okojie has a sharp eye for the twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches from elegance to brutality in a single line’STELLA DUFFY