Freshwater

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Akwaeke Emezi: Freshwater (2018, Faber & Faber, Limited)

240 pages

English language

Published 2018 by Faber & Faber, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-571-34539-7
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Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's multiple experiences of trauma are retold and the author unflinchingly explores how they are impacted (e.g., self-harm, dissociation). The character's psychology is viewed through a non-Western lens.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, biographical
  • Nigeria, fiction
  • Fiction, women