The Liquid Eye of a Moon / Uchenna Awoke
- Bib ID:
- 10032500
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Awoke, Uchenna, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2024
- ©2024
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 1.5MB
- ISBN:
- 9781761385919
- Summary:
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"Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be made village head. He will return to school and maybe even go on to university; his mother will no longer have to break her back foraging wild food to sell at market; they will have the money to build a fine tomb for his aunt Okike; and his family's status as ohu ma, the lowest Igbo caste, won't matter anymore. But when his father is passed over for a younger man, breaking tradition, Dimkpa realises that he must make his own fate. Journeying from his small village in rural Nigeria, to Lagos, Awka, and home again, Dimkpa learns that no money is easy money, that superstition runs deep, that knowledge is power, and that sometimes it is better to live in the present than always be chasing a future just out of reach. The Liquid Eye of a Moon is by turns hilarious and poignant, capturing all the messiness of adolescence, and the difficulty of making your own way in the world." -- publisher.
- Notes:
- General.
- Subject:
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- Families -- Fiction
- Nigerian fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Africa
- Family life fiction
- Fiction / Coming Of Age
- Fiction / Small Town & Rural
- Fiction / World Literature / Africa / Nigeria
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Narrative theme: Coming of age
- Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
- Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages
- Narrative theme: Love & relationships
- Narrative theme: Sense of place
- Nigeria -- Fiction
- Genre/Form:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2024
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