Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ https://epub.gratis Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:55:43 +0000 es hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://epub.gratis/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-epubgratis-icono-32x32.png Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ https://epub.gratis 32 32 Clarion Calls https://epub.gratis/book/clarion-calls/ https://epub.gratis/book/clarion-calls/#respond Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:55:12 +0000 https://epub.gratis/?post_type=mbdb_book&p=10530

An essay from the collection, Of This Our Country

Clarion Calls: An essay from the collection Of This Our Country
Ediciones:eBook (English)
ISBN: B097XV14SW
Páginas: 156

Defining Nigeria bold, a half-truth. Several have tried, but most came to the conclusion that it is really difficult to capture the true scope and consideration of the most populous nation in Africa through expressions or images.

Sinopsis:

Yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view, and in her essay, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ recalls memories of her time in the National Youth Service and her growing understanding of her Nigerian identity through the words of the national anthem.

Powerful, lyrical and entirely unforgettable, the essays from OF THIS OUR COUNTRY weave together a living portrait of Nigeria, one that is as beautiful as it is complex.

Reviews:Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, author of Yinka Where is Your Huzband :

The read I never thought I needed … Moving, funny at times, insightful and so relatable. It's a necessary read.

Jendella Benson, author of Hope and Glory :

As eclectic and diverse as the country itself, and you can go from laughing to wanting to weep in a matter of moments as you’re taken through the ups and downs of a nation.


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Queda’T Amb Mi https://epub.gratis/book/quedat-amb-mi/ https://epub.gratis/book/quedat-amb-mi/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:13:31 +0000 https://epub.gratis/?post_type=mbdb_book&p=10427
Queda'T Amb Mi
Ediciones:eBook
ISBN: 8417214143
Páginas: 320

Yejide i Akin són un jove matrimoni a la Nigèria dels anys vuitanta. En una societat poligàmica, ells, sabent-se enamorats, decideixen ser una parella monògama.

Sinopsis:

Però els problemes comencen quan no arriben els fills, fet que socialment i familiarment es considera una catàstrofe.

Akin accedirà a casar-se gairebé d'amagat amb una segona esposa. Indignada i gelosa, Yejide sap que l'única manera de salvar el seu matrimoni serà aconseguir quedar-se embarassada.

En la tradició de Chinua Achebe i Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, la primera novel·la d'Ayòbámi Adébáyò tracta temes universals -amor, família, traïció, culpa- en una història apassionant sobre les relacions humanes, les expectatives vitals que ens fem a la joventut i sobre el desig, de vegades incontrolable, de tenir fills.

Rebuda com un autèntic fenomen literari, _Queda't amb mi_ és la història de dos personatges que s'enfronten desesperadament a les frustracions i les pèrdues que la vida els imposa.

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Reste avec moi https://epub.gratis/book/reste-avec-moi/ https://epub.gratis/book/reste-avec-moi/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:05:24 +0000 https://epub.gratis/?post_type=mbdb_book&p=10422
Reste avec moi
Ediciones:eBook (French)
ISBN: 2290216267
Páginas: 384

Yejide et Akin ont une histoire d'amour extraordinaire. De leur coup de foudre à l'université à leur mariage, tout s'est enchaîné.

Sinopsis:

Pourtant, quatre ans plus tard, Yejide n’est toujours pas enceinte. Ils pourraient se contenter de leur amour si Akin, en tant que fils aîné, n’était tenu d’offrir un héritier à ses parents. Jusqu’au jour où une jeune femme apparaît sur le pas de la porte.

La seconde épouse d’Akin. Celle qui lui donnera l’enfant tant désiré, Bouleversée, folle de jalousie, Yejide sait que la seule façon de sauver son mariage est d’avoir un bébé. Commence alors une longue et douloureuse quête de maternité qui exigera d’elle des sacrifices inimaginables.

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Stay With Me https://epub.gratis/book/stay-with-me/ https://epub.gratis/book/stay-with-me/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:57:02 +0000 https://epub.gratis/?post_type=mbdb_book&p=10416
Stay With Me
Ediciones:eBook (English)
ISBN: B01LDANWZK
Páginas: 305

— SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION.
— SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE.
— LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE.

Sinopsis:

Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything.

But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear.

Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria, Stay With Me is a story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the power of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood.

It is a tale about the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves, and those we love, from heartbreak.

Reviews:Margaret Atwood :

Scorching, gripping, ultimately lovely

The Times :

This terrific first novel (shortlisted for the Baileys women's prize for fiction) deals with the daily stresses of living with the political upheavals of the time but the real drama is happening in Yejide's womb. Adebayo unfolds the many layers of truth with insight and skill

Guardian :

A thoroughly contemporary style that is all her own . . . clever and funny . . . despite the intense sadness of her subject matter, she has produced a bright, big-hearted demonstration of female spirit, as well as the damage done by the boundlessness of male pride

New York Times :

Has a remarkable emotional resonance and depth of field Adebayo is an exceptional storyteller. She writes not just with extraordinary grace but with genuine wisdom about love and loss and the possibility of redemption. She has written a powerfully magnetic and heartbreaking book.

Stylist :

One of the must-reads books of the year so far: Stay With Me has it all, including big themes of love, grief and jealousy, a fantastic female protagonist plus it reads like a page-turning thriller.

Sunday Times :

Affecting and powerful . . . Adebayo's prose is a pleasure: immediate, unpretentious and flecked with whip-smart Nigerian-English dialogue

Daily Mail :

This deeply impressive novel of infertility, loneliness and longing is the first by the hotly-tipped Adebayo and it packs a tremendous punch

ELLE :

This confident and fearless writer challenges us to think about marriage from all perspectives in her first novel . . . Stay With Me is the closely observed, heartbreaking and original tale of the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves from severing the very bonds that make us

Mail on Sunday :

This impressive debut creates, in deceptively simple prose, a portrait of a marriage in crisis in a deeply patriarchal and oppressive society

Financial Times :

This tale of a Nigerian couple under familial pressure to conceive is a subtle and unsentimental triumph . . . A tale of real complexity and humanity, part psychological observation and social study


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